J. Edgar Hoover [Hoover]

Los Angeles: RLC/Finnegan, 1986. Shooting script for the television film, here under the working title "Hoover," first aired on Showtime on January 11, 1987.

A biopic documenting the rise to power and final years of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-standing and controversial director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Loosely based on William C. Sullivan's 1979 memoir "The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover's FBI."

Set in Washington DC

Gray titled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 14, 1986, noted as SHOOTING DRAFT, with credits for director and screenwriter Robert Collins. 117 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, with some foxing and light fading to the extremities, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #146118]