James Stewart
John Michael `'Chip'` Hardesty
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The FBI Story is a 1959 American crime drama film starring James Stewart, and produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
A film about the FBI's early days and its investigations of the Klan, gangsters, Nazis and spies, narrated by a veteran agent. Starring James Stewart, Vera Miles and Murray Hamilton, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
- (4K)
- Crime, Drama, History
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1959-10
Using its extensive lab facilities and research capabilities, the FBI tracks down and arrests spies. Chip directs one such case from his desk in Washington. With the help of telephones and radios, the veteran agent coordinates the extended pursuit and ultimate arrest of two New York-based Communist spies.
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...
A list of the actors, directors, writers and other crew members who worked on the 1959 crime drama film The FBI Story, starring James Stewart as a real-life FBI agent. See their names, roles and photos on IMDb.
A 1959 movie that follows the adventures of a veteran FBI agent from the 1920s to the 1940s. The film is based on the book by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and features famous mobsters, Klansmen and spies as enemies.
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- Crime, Drama
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This film follows the career of fictional FBI agent Chip Hardesty. It starts off with the 1955 airline bombing by Jack Graham who placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase so he could collect the insurance and killed 44 people in the process.
