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Release Date: 1959

Cast: Joyce Taylor, James Stewart, Adam West, Vera Ralston, Parley Baer, Jean Willes, Nick Adams, Victor Millan, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Diane Jergens

Categories: Movies, Crime Thriller

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... MORE

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. The lecture becomes the narration of flashbacks as he tells of his life 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 in May 1924, and his proposal to a librarian, Lucy Ann Ballard (Vera Miles). They marry with the idea that Hardesty will resign from the FBI and start practicing law. On his way to Washington D.C. his partner, LESS