The different segments were very dramatic and stayed with me for decades. The film as entertainment is very good and Jimmy Stewart is excellent as Chip Hardesty, with well done co-starring turns by Vera Miles and Murray Hamilton. 3 out of 6 found this helpful. Esteemed director Mervyn LeRoy helmed this adaptation of Don Whitehead's book, but despite the talent involved, the picture fails to make much of an impression. It was a day or so after the accident. It's a good story, with some nice action scenes, light touches of family humor, and a fine music score by Max Steiner. 6 out of 12 found this helpful. His management of the bureau from 1924 to his death crated on of the finest investigative services in the world. In his personal life, he gets married with Lucy Ann Hardesty (Vera Miles); they have three children; he loses his best friend and also agent Sam Crandall (Murray Hamilton), killed in action; his marriage has a crisis due to his dedication to the Bureau; his older daughter gets married; and he loses his son in World War II. Nonetheless, Stewart turns in a very good performance not only on-screen but also via voice-over narration. The thing that makes this movie watchable is Jimmy Stewart. Interesting story about the Federal Bureau , -headquarters in Washington- , that unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents , following the career of a fictional FBI agent , Chip Hardesty (James Stewart) from when it was a second-class office against crime to the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country. On a November evening in 1955 the definition became obsolete. Now considering the agent is played by Jimmy Stewart, then it's pretty certain the acting and writing were good--as this was a movie with a real budget and a studio who wasn't about to waste the star in a third-rate flick. Too bad. At least that's the feeling you get after watching the gripping but slightly mellow crime drama, The FBI story. 4 out of 9 found this helpful. 's history as Knott's Berry Farm is to the old west.

This is an entertaining "history" of the FBI, but it should be viewed as fiction, because that's exactly what it is. The story covers a 35 year period of time, and the FBI action scenes are interspersed with an improbable domestic melodrama involving Vera Miles as the long-suffering wife. The background score is also pleasant. What is significant is what it leaves out. In the tradition of G-Men, The House On 92nd Street, The Street With No Name, now comes The FBI Story one of those carefully supervised films that showed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the best possible light. Several unrelated crime cases are piled up to make a propaganda for FBI, with agent Stewart's domestic life unevenly blended in between them. Was this review helpful? 4 out of 9 found this helpful. It spins off into several segments covering Hardesty's career. He tells the story of the agency entwined with his own personal life since 1924, when FBI was a bureaucratic department that gave employment to god nephews of politicians. It's set during the Depression era, and the 30s , when any job , even illegal one , was cherished, greed , money and power originated an interminable cycle of fury and violence . Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? 5 out of 10 found this helpful. However, while some view his film as pure propaganda, I'm wondering what's so wrong with that? Have you ever felt like your being watched, like someone keeps tabs on every move you make? Yes, it's more fiction than fact but it's also a good movie. Was this review helpful? The lecture becomes the narration of flashbacks as he tells of his life as an agent combating various crimes and criminals, Hoover aside, This story of a life in the FBI as told by Jimmy Stewart makes for a decent, but dated film. The straight-forward narrative has little action, no suspense, and no excitement. 4 out of 6 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? When I watched this scene I thought I recognized the voice of Jones when the "waiter" laughed at the end. 25 out of 41 found this helpful. 6 out of 13 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Murray Hamilton is especially good in a supporting role as Stewart's partner and best friend. What else could it be when J. Edgar Hoover personally approved and had a cameo role in the production. The FBI accomplishments that the film highlights are undoubtedly all true. As much as Hoover controlled production and always made sure the FBI was seen without fault, Jimmy Stewart gave the film a human side,quite an achievement considering Hoover was always looking over his shoulder.

Jimmy Stewart is artificially aged and then made young again in this ambitious propaganda film from director Mervyn LeRoy and Warner Bros. studios. If you have seen this movie recently on cable, the story ends with the capture of Communist spies and then Jimmy Stewart drives off into the sunset with his family.

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