Movie: The FBI Story (1959)
- Director: Mervyn LeRoy
- Release Date: October 1959 (USA)
- Writers: Richard L. Breen (screenplay) & John Twist (screenplay) …
- Run Time: 149 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Crime , Drama , History , Thriller
Tagline: The fury of America’s fight for decency !
Trivia: J. Edgar Hoover personally chose James Stewart for the role of Chip Hardesty because he felt that Stewart conveyed a positive image.
Goofs: Anachronisms: During the conversation on the train, which was suppose to take place in the ’20’s, the other Sam Crandall is telling Chip Hardesty the dauntingly large number of kinds of murder there are. One of the types of murder he mentions is “genocide”, a word not coined until 1943.
“The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>”
