THE FBI STORY

Details

• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Suspense/Thriller, War
• Plot: 35 Years of Crimebusting with G-Man James Stewart!; American movie icon James Stewart portrays one of J. Edgar Hoover's finest and Vera Miles co-stars as his steadfast wife in this salute to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The colorful career of Agent Chip Hardesty (Stewart) covers 1924 to the late '50s. Along the way he tangles with everything from the Klu Klux Klan to a bomber who commits mass murder for insurance money. His fiercest exploits come in the '30s when he stares down the gun barrel at Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelley, Ma Barker and John Dillenger. From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Don Whitehead's bestseller and directed by veteran Hollywood hitmaker Mervyn LeRoy, The FBI Story is you rat-a-tat ticket to the inside story.
• Cast: Murray Hamilton; Paul Genge; James Stewart; Eddie Little Sky; Morgan Lane; Kay E. Kuter; George Khoury; Sid Kane; Carroll House; Rand Hopper; J. Edgar Hoover; Judd Holdren; Elizabeth Harrower; Rand Harper; Roy Gordon; Arthur D. Gilmour; Michael Garrett; Terry Frost; Sam Flint; Ella Ethridge; William Lovett; Jennie Lynn; Lori Martin; Al McGranary; Gil Smith; Dorothy Skyeagle; George Selk; Grant Scott; Emily All Runner; Herman Rudin; Grandon Rhodes; Charles Postal; James Porta; Ben Erway; Jim Porcupine; William Phipps; Bob Peterson; Bob Peoples; George Pembroke; Al Paige; Dorothy Neumann; Burt Mustin; Ray Montgomery; Tom Monroe; David McMahon; John Pickard; Tippy Elam; Mary Ann Edwards; Robin Eccles; Herb Armstrong; Audley Anderson; Luana Anders; Clyde Tolson; Ken Mayer; Buzz Martin; Robert Gist; Ed Prentiss; Fay Roope; Eleanor Audley; Parley Baer; Joyce Taylor; Jean Willes; Diane Jergens; Nick Adams; Larry Pennell; Vera Miles; Victor Millan; David Barclay; Charles Bateman; Joan Dupuis; Ann Doran; Paul Denton; Vera Denham; Gabriel Del Valle; Angelo De Meo; Susan Davis; Jeanne Dante; John Damler; Jane Crowley; Fern Barry; Alan Craig; Robert Clarke; Theona Bryant; Charles Brunner; Lowell Brown; Jerry Brent; Richard Boyer; Nesdon Booth; Shirley Bonne; Kimberly Beck; Barbara Beall; Mary Lou Clifford; Paul Smith; Victor Adamson; Benjie Bancroft; Nick Borgani; Chet Brandenburg; Peter Brown; Henry Casso; Dick Cherney; Bud Cokes; Sayre Dearing; George Ford; Kenneth Gibson; James Gonzalez; Harry Harvey; Les Hellman; Jack Henderson; Tex Holden; Stacy Keach Sr.; Rickey Kelman; Walter Kightly; Robert Locke Lorraine; Ted Mapes; Russ McCubbin; Ron Nyman; Scott Peters; Murray Pollack; John Quijada; Paul Ravel; Mabel Smaney; Michael Smith; Charles Soldani; Bert Spencer; Vincent St. Cyr; Glenn Stensel; Michael Switlick; Forrest Taylor; Guy Teague; Jack Tesler; Roy Thinnes; William J. Thomas; Alfred Tonkel; John Truax; John Varnum; James Vickery; Elmore Vincent; Ed Wagner; Selene Walters; Maurice Wells; Adam West; Will J. White; Patrick Whyte; Guy Wilkerson; Tom Wilson; Britt Wood; Roque Ybarra; Chief Yowlachie; Mervyn LeRoy; John Twist; Richard L. Breen
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Runtime: 2:29
• Company: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie