Says the narrator
"Washington D.C., once just the capital of the United States, today a symbol of strength and a bulwark of hope for the entire world. And, as Washington has grown in international significance, so has the Department of Justice. Its nerve center is the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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J. Edgar Hoover must really have had the goods on in addition to Washington politicians and civil rights leaders Hollywood producers. How else to explain the continuing stream of movies that sanctify the FBI in cloyingly reverential terms. In this achingly second-rate B-movie we have a governor aiming for the Senate who happens to be a murderer. The power behind this white-haired old weakling is a corrupt and ruthless man called Blake yes, Raymond Burr. Blake plans to use one of those FBI girls in the Bureau's records division to steal the governor's fingerprint card so no one will ever learn of the Governor's indiscretion. The records appear to be stolen, the FBI girl is disposed of, but FBI agents Glen Stedman (Cesar Romero) and Jeff Donley (George Brent) are assigned to find out how and why the card was stolen. In the next 74 minutes Romero will explain the case, Brent will look like he wished he were somewhere else and the music will soar to stentorian heights every time the FBI is mentioned.
FBI Girl is one of those sad movies where, if they're unlucky, men and women who once were stars but, unable to hold on to the gold ring, now found themselves. Cesar Romero, big in the Forties and memorable as Cortez in Captain from Castile, ended up in things like Prisoners of the Casbah and Happy Go Lucky. Brent, unthreatening leading man to the big female stars in the Thirties and still interesting in The Spiral Staircase, saw himself in Tangier Incident and Mexican Manhunt. Even the second leads, Audrey Totter as a brave FBI clerk and Tom Drake as her lobbyist boyfriend, were in the down slope of their careers. The only actor worth paying attention to is Raymond Burr. It's a wonder he survived these dogs.
By the way, the FBI got their man, but only after they had to activate Operation Two.
J. Edgar Hoover must really have had the goods on in addition to Washington politicians and civil rights leaders Hollywood producers. How else to explain the continuing stream of movies that sanctify the FBI in cloyingly reverential terms. In this achingly second-rate B-movie we have a governor aiming for the Senate who happens to be a murderer. The power behind this white-haired old weakling is a corrupt and ruthless man called Blake yes, Raymond Burr. Blake plans to use one of those FBI girls in the Bureau's records division to steal the governor's fingerprint card so no one will ever learn of the Governor's indiscretion. The records appear to be stolen, the FBI girl is disposed of, but FBI agents Glen Stedman (Cesar Romero) and Jeff Donley (George Brent) are assigned to find out how and why the card was stolen. In the next 74 minutes Romero will explain the case, Brent will look like he wished he were somewhere else and the music will soar to stentorian heights every time the FBI is mentioned.
FBI Girl is one of those sad movies where, if they're unlucky, men and women who once were stars but, unable to hold on to the gold ring, now found themselves. Cesar Romero, big in the Forties and memorable as Cortez in Captain from Castile, ended up in things like Prisoners of the Casbah and Happy Go Lucky. Brent, unthreatening leading man to the big female stars in the Thirties and still interesting in The Spiral Staircase, saw himself in Tangier Incident and Mexican Manhunt. Even the second leads, Audrey Totter as a brave FBI clerk and Tom Drake as her lobbyist boyfriend, were in the down slope of their careers. The only actor worth paying attention to is Raymond Burr. It's a wonder he survived these dogs.
By the way, the FBI got their man, but only after they had to activate Operation Two.