The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) opens the film narrating the story of a young man, Jack Graham (Nick Adams), who took out life insurance on his mother and planted a bomb in her luggage for Columbia Airlines Flight 21 that she was taking from Denver, Colorado, to Po...
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The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) opens the film narrating the story of a young man, Jack Graham (Nick Adams), who took out life insurance on his mother and planted a bomb in her luggage for Columbia Airlines Flight 21 that she was taking from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, November 1, 1955. (John "Jack" Gilbert Graham was convicted and executed for killing the 44 (not 49) people on United Airlines Flight 629.)
Next we see Hardesty as he recounts his history as an FBI agent during a lecture. This style of narrations, lecture, and scenes, are interwoven though out his time as an agent combating various crimes and criminals, including the Ku Klux Klan, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and spies.
Then he recounts his first involvement as a government clerk in Knoxville, Tennessee...
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