The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (trailer, 1977)

For 48 years, he defended the country against crime, subversion, and corruption. He was never elected, he was never opposed. He could never be bought. But he knew everyone who could. Everyone. How did he control the Kennedys?

What did he know about Martin Luther King? Why did he defy President Nixon? What really happened to the private files of J. Edgar Hoover? Actually filmed inside the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.

and in the Bureau Training School at Quantico, Virginia. This is the story of the real Jay Edgar Hoover and the people whose lives he controlled. Starring Academy Award winner, Broderick Crawford is Jay Edgar Hoover, Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm, Rip Tornd, Ronnie Blakely, John Marley, June Havoc, Lloyd Nolan, William Jordan as John F. Kennedy, James Wainwright as Young Hoover, Howard De Silva as Fr.

Howard De Silva is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Michael Sax is Melvin Purvis. Raymond St. Jacques is Martin Luther King. Andrew Duggan is Lyndon Johnson. George Plimpton is Quentin Reynolds. Stan Daly has Clyde Tolson. Lloyd Gao is Walter Winchle.

Brad Dexter as Alvin Carpis. George D. Wallace is Senator Joe McCarthy. And Michael Parks as Robert Kennedy. A distinguished Oscar winning cast in a true story of political intrigue at the center of power from World War I to Watergate.

The private files of Jay Edgar who never got secrets. Satan's sinister sister appears on the prowl.