Writer-director Robert Collins' numbing script is the chief reason for the failure of this sketchy, strictly-on-the-surface look at the long career of the autocratic head of the FBI. The stolid Treat Williams is miscast as Hoover, though better actors would be defeated by such stretches of dialogue as 'I know how a priest must feel privy to the private corruption behind the public face. Who is to defend us? Who is to steer a course through these ward heelers? ' Given the chance to work with an interesting source book - William G Sullivan and William S Brown's 'My 30 Years with Hoover's FBI', Collins has missed most of his opportunities.


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