Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)


American International Pictures
Directed by Larry Cohen
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM Limited Edition Collection)

Trashy "biography" of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his early days as a communist witch hunter to his rampant electronic surveillance in the late 60s and early 70s that brought down the highest members of government. The all-star cast doles out caricatures of famous figures, including the Kennedy's and Martin Luther King, in a series of unrelated sketches. This is for people looking to justify wild conspiracy theories or heated political debate, but any resemblance to actual history, or a good movie, is purely coincidental.

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