The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

Directors

Larry Cohen

Cast

Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks, José Ferrer, Celeste Holm, William Jordan

The story

The film is a fictionalized chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his earliest days in the FBI in the 1920s until his death in 1972. The film is also framed by an opening and closing vignette showing the aftermath of Hoover's death and the mad dash to obtain possession of the "private files" in the title, files that Hoover used to blackmail and extort people in positions of power and authority, to retain leadership of the FBI.

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