The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover
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Music director Miklos Rozsa Duration Country United States | 6.4/10 Genre Biography, Drama Writer Larry Cohen Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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- The private files of j edgar hoover 1977 trailer
- The private files of j edgar hoover a film by larry cohen
- Plot
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The private files of j edgar hoover a film by larry cohen
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.
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References
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