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Director
  
Music director
  
Miklos Rozsa

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Larry Cohen

Language
  
English

The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover movie poster

Release date
  
December 1977 (1977-12)

Cast
  
(J. Edgar Hoover), (Young Hoover), (Robert F. Kennedy), (Lionel McCoy), (Dwight Webb), (Carrie DeWitt)

Similar movies
  
Related Larry Cohen movies

Tagline
  
Not all the files were destroyed

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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover is a 1977 film directed by Larry Cohen and starring Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright. The cast includes Jose Ferrer, Michael Parks, Celeste Holm, Ronee Blakely, Tanya Roberts in a cameo role, and in final screen appearances, Jack Cassidy and Dan Dailey. Both Cassidy and Dailey met with then First Lady Betty Ford and helped director Cohen get permission to do the film's on location cinematography in Washington, D.C., in locales where the real Hoover visited or worked. The film was shown at the Kennedy Center in Washington to a mixed response from Republicans and Democrats who did not like the dark visions Cohen evoked on American politics and the portrayals of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard M. Nixon: actor Howard Da Silva played Roosevelt, and "Richard M. Dixon" plays Nixon. After it was shown in Washington, the film took a limited nationwide release to theaters, and got a full release to video and television into the 1980s and 1990s.

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Plot

The film is a chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, starting first in the time of Prohibition, as he enforced the law on bootlegging and organized crime. Later, the director comes up against the Red Scare of the 1950s, the Kennedys, the wave of change in the 1960s, and his hatred of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Examined here is the allegation that he had an 'abnormal' sexual life, along with his obsession with his dead mother.

Cast

  • Broderick Crawford as J. Edgar Hoover
  • Michael Parks as Robert F. Kennedy
  • José Ferrer as Lionel McCoy
  • Celeste Holm as Florence Hollister
  • Rip Torn as Dwight Webb
  • Dan Dailey as Clyde Tolson
  • Ronee Blakley as Carrie DeWitt
  • James Wainwright as Young Hoover
  • John Marley as Dave Hindley
  • Howard Da Silva as Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Michael Sacks as Melvin Purvis
  • Raymond St. Jacques as Martin Luther King
  • June Havoc as Hoover's Mother
  • Lloyd Nolan as Harlan F. Stone
  • Andrew Duggan as Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Jack Cassidy as Damon Runyon
  • George Plimpton as Quentin Reynolds
  • Lloyd Gough as Walter Winchell
  • William Jordan as John F. Kennedy
  • Brad Dexter as Alvin Karpis
  • References

    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover Wikipedia
    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover IMDb The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover themoviedb.org


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