J. Edgar (2011)
In 1919, after anarchists fail to assassinate Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, he assigns his protégé J. Edgar Hoover to a division dedicated to purging radicals. He meets Helen Gandy, a new secretary at the Justice Department, and takes her to the Library of Congress to show her the card catalog system. While there, she rejects his awkward passes, but agrees to become his personal secretary. Hoover finds that the Department of Labor refuses to deport anyone without evidence of a crime. Learning that Anthony Caminetti, the Commissioner General of Immigration, dislikes the anarchist Emma Goldman, Hoover arranges to make her eligible for deportation and thereby creates a precedent of deportation for radical conspiracy.
Following several such raids of suspected radical groups, Palmer loses his job as Attorney General. His successor, Harlan F. Stone, appoints Hoover as director of the Justice Department’s new Bureau of Investigation. Meanwhile, Hoover meets and hires lawyer Clyde Tolson. When the Lindbergh kidnapping captures national attention, President Herbert Hoover asks the Bureau to investigate. Hoover employs several novel techniques, including the monitoring of registration numbers on ransom bills and expert analysis of the kidnapper’s handwriting. When the monitored bills begin showing up in New York City, the investigators find a filling station attendant who wrote down the license plate number of the man who gave him the bill.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Leonardo DiCaprioJ. Edgar Hoover  Armie HammerClyde Tolson  Naomi WattsHelen Gandy  Judi DenchAnnie Hoover  Josh LucasCharles Lindbergh  Dermot MulroneyColonel Schwarzkopf  Jeffrey DonovanRobert Kennedy |
In 1919, after anarchists fail to assassinate Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, he assigns his protégé J. Edgar Hoover to a division dedicated to purging radicals. He meets Helen Gandy, a new secretary at the Justice Department, and takes her to the Library of Congress to show her the card catalog system. While there, she rejects his awkward passes, but agrees to become his personal secretary. Hoover finds that the Department of Labor refuses to deport anyone without evidence of a crime. Learning that Anthony Caminetti, the Commissioner General of Immigration, dislikes the anarchist Emma Goldman, Hoover arranges to make her eligible for deportation and thereby creates a precedent of deportation for radical conspiracy.
Following several such raids of suspected radical groups, Palmer loses his job as Attorney General. His successor, Harlan F. Stone, appoints Hoover as director of the Justice Department’s new Bureau of Investigation. Meanwhile, Hoover meets and hires lawyer Clyde Tolson. When the Lindbergh kidnapping captures national attention, President Herbert Hoover asks the Bureau to investigate. Hoover employs several novel techniques, including the monitoring of registration numbers on ransom bills and expert analysis of the kidnapper’s handwriting. When the monitored bills begin showing up in New York City, the investigators find a filling station attendant who wrote down the license plate number of the man who gave him the bill.
