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The FBI Story (1959) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Mervyn LeRoy.

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John Gilbert Graham: [after being arrested for murder] In case I get any mail, you can send it to Canon City Prison for the next month or so. After that you can send it to Hell!


John Michael Hardesty: [Opening narration] Webster's International Dictionary defines murder as the unlawful taking of human life by another human being. On a November evening in 1955 the definition became obsolete. A mass murder was being planned.


John Michael Hardesty: On Sunday morning he left the house. He couldn't be going to work. Since he was a Communist, we knew he wasn't going to church.


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Security checks were performed on all those involved on the film's production.
J. Edgar Hoover
Supposedly, and this may have been a promotional gimmick, J. Edgar Hoover wept during the scene where Sam Crandall (Murray Hamilton) dies after being shot by Baby Face Nelson.
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