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Good film but..

posted 9 years ago by maxshalamar
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.. a bit inaccurate - not one mention of Melvin Purvis and others

Did Jimmy Stewart really solve all those crimes, tackle the Klan, Commies, and Gangsters?

Maybe the character was supposed to be an amalgam but it really takes the credit away from the real people .. apart from Hoover of course who was a blatant self publicist ;-)

[–] CarlCarlson 8 years ago

Right? Movie should have been called The Exaggerated Life and Times of a Family Man in The FBI.

"If Mad Max Fury Road is an 8 (I gave it a 1). Then I'll use 8 for OK, 9 is better, 10 is best."

[–] ecarle (14979) 7 years ago

Everybody knows that it was Efrem Zimbalist Jr. who solved all those crimes!