G-Man (slang) the Movie of the same name. G-Man (slang) G-Man (short for "Government Man") is an American slang term for special agents of the United States Government. It is specifically used as a term for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. "G-Man" is also a term used for members of G Division, essentially a British anti-rebel police unit operating out of Dublin Castle prior to Irish Independence in 1922. Colonel Ned Broy uses the term in his official testimony for the Irish Army's Bureau of Military History in their archive of the Easter Rising (1916) and the Irish War of
Melvin Purvis: G-Man Melvin Purvis: G-Man Melvin Purvis: G-Man is a 1974 American TV movie about Melvin Purvis. It is a spin-off of "Dillinger" (directed by John Milius, author of the teleplay for this movie) and was followed in 1975 by "The Kansas City Massacre", also directed by Dan Curtis and starring Dale Robertson as Purvis. In this largely fictionalized film, agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly and sets out to do just that. The film script is loosely based on Kelly's actual 1933 kidnapping of an Oklahoma petroleum executive, but the names and