this be an entertaining history of the fbi and but it should be view a fiction and because that exactly what it be . what else could it be when j. edgar hoover personally approve and have a cameo role in the production . james stewart be excellent and a usual and and the support cast and except for the talentless vera mile and be good . murray hamilton be especially good in a supporting role a stewart partner and best friend . the fbi accomplishment that the film highlight be undoubtedly all true . what be significant be what it leave out . one of the most shameful part of the film be the depiction of the killing of john dillinger . it be portray pretty much a it happen and but no mention at all be make of melvin purvis and the chicago bureau chief who head the operation . instead and the operation be depict a if the fictional chip hardesty be run it . it have be say that hoover be jealous of the publicity that purvis receive after dillinger be kill while purvis be subsequently transfer to a remote outpost and and shortly afterward leave the fbi . this be no doubt why purvis be never mention in the film . but this viewer and at least and pause to think that if purvis be treat this way and what about all the agent who conduct all the other operation depict in the film . be they also completely ignore and replace by the fictional hardesty . the film be probably accurate in it portrayal of fbi activity up through the end of wwii . however and after that point and the film would have u believe that the only threat face the u come from international communism and which be no doubt what hoover believe . never mind the mafia . never mind the lynching that be still go on in the south . never mind that black be be intimidate to keep them from vote in much of the south . i do not know if the fbi have start wiretapping martin luther king by the time this film be make and but if not and it wasn not very long afterward that it start . a i say at the outset and this be pretty good entertainment and but it should be view a the sanitized fictionalization that it be .