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The FBI Story

1959 · Film · 149 min

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

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A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

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  1. NeutralBeetleBJul 15, 2019

    Not quite the same, but the FBI has a history of this:

    >The Federal Bureau of Investigation had great influence over the production, with J. Edgar Hoover acting as a co-producer of sorts. Hoover even forced LeRoy to re-shoot several scenes he didn't think portrayed the FBI in an appropriate light, and played a pivotal role in the casting for the film. Hoover and LeRoy were personal friends, but Hoover only approved the film after he had a file of "dirt" created on LeRoy.[11][12] Hoover had to approve every frame of the film and also had two special agents with LeRoy for the duration of filming

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_FBI_Story