The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One, 1974

A very rare film

[@nathanielholloway8267]

I can’t find a movie Dvd like this in stores, but I can see it on yutube-without paying🤣🤣 priceless

[@timeportal8937]

Yes sometimes KZbin is a good thing

[@Johnketes54]

@@timeportal8937 Good thing all the time

[@Kruppt808]

​@Johnketes54 ty, for $0 you can access millions of songs and movies. "Sometimes......" 👎

[@daveroche6522]

A Quinn Martin Production? Hell YEAH! Thank you.

[@rolandsingh]

One Absolutely Excellent, Movie. Robert Foxworth in the role of Alvin Karpis, is one great, actor. The Eyes - scary, deadly! WOW! Thanks, for such an Outstandingly Interesting, Movie. ❤💯%❤ Roland Singh, Canada 🇨🇦

[@foreverblueclassics]

Wow, I have been looking for this movie for such a long time. I remember seeing it on British TV back in the 1970s but to my knowledge it hasn't been on again since the 80s, and yet I've never forgotten it. Thank you for posting. What a find, as it is VERY rare as you say!

[@lucky2knight]

Kkik Kuhn

[@toadinthehole8085]

Am expecting big thing's now .

[@Johnketes54]

@@toadinthehole8085 Good for it's time,Reasonably good actors,good sets,The Thompson machine guns looked realistic,But suspect cheaply and poorly made,When dropped doesn't sound like a heavy bit of metal but light weight decoy

[@tonymac2368]

It's a shame that you have to pay to see the one with Jimmy Stewart.

[@steelers6titles]

@@Johnketes54 The budget accommodated Eileen Heckart, David Wayne, Anne Francis, and Gary Lockwood, all well-known actors with impressive resumes.

[@jeffballard244]

Bloody good movie Thank You for putting it up

[@patrickrooney5130]

This was a very good movie and great actors thanks for sharing it with us and keep them coming.

[@alandehn8541]

My dad who just died at 101 was a teenager in the 30's. He used to say that the papers would print story's about the gangsters in the New Jersey papers where he lived and grew up.

[@ToreDL87]

Nothing new there, they printed those stories everywhere in the world.

[@petermihacerar1137]

@@ToreDL87 relevant issues are plain

[@Anthony-qy5yw]

Public enemy Johnny depp .

[@jeffcampbell2710]

"Story's" is as good a word as any, for propaganda.

[@elmagodelmaryahoo]

*THX* El Rey for this _gooood_ little 30s crime "drama" that I hadn't seen in decades = Almost *'A+'* !!!!

[@strangerintown3676]

Thanks for the upload, I saw this on network showing in 1974, been wanting to watch it again.

[@breezeman5348]

Excellent show. Thanks for the upload. Much appreciated. 😎

[@dmkuchins6646]

Nice to see all the 1930s stuff so many years later...

[@Johnketes54]

This is my third in two day's on KZbin

[@seanwynne5848]

Robert Foxworth is a terrific actor.

[@blinkybill2997]

Bloody good movie mate!!!

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

Before he hit it big with "ROOTS", Marvin J Chomsky directed this CBS-TV movie from QM Productions and Warner Bros.Television, producers of ABC's long-running "THE FBI" (1965-1974), which was broadcast on November 4, 1974. Starring Robert Foxworth ("THE STOREFRONT LAWYERS" aka "MEN AT LAW") as gangster, Alvin Karpis, of the infamous Ma Parker gang. Harris Yulin co-stars as "J. Edgar Hoover", an actor, best known for playing despicable bad guys ("FATAL BEAUTY", MGM, 1987), and "CONSPIRACY-THE TRIAL OF THE CHIGAO 8", also in 1987, for HBO. William Conrad, who was the narrator of ABC and QM's "THE FUGITIVE" (1963-1967), and the star of CBS's "CANNON" (1971-1976)-also a QM Production, narrated this CBS movie-and, co-star Gary Lockwood ("THE LIEUTENANT". 1963-1964), who previously co-starred in QM's MANHUNTER" TV pilot, also in 1974, gives another tour of duty in this second QM production as one of Ma Barker's sons.

[@randquadrozzi5850]

Can't mistake the voice of the narrator.frank cannon(William Conrad )also did rocky and bullwinkle among many others.pretty good tv movie

[@Johnketes54]

Cannon as well?

[@glenfenderman]

Alright! I have been looking for this movie for years! I haven't seen it since the 1970's Thanks for posting it!

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Documented Crime Drama,Narrator,William Conrad,Narrator William Conrad.William Conrad RIP.

[@steelers6titles]

Karpis played the game, and ended up alive. He was eventually paroled to his native Canada. He died in Spain in 1979.

[@tomalexander4327]

Surprisingly solid TV movie

[@tonytafoya6217]

This is the only way I can visit the 1970s. It's my only time machine. Going back there, where my childhood lives, is Like slipping into a nice warm bath. But then the movie ends, the water gets cold, and it's time once again to snap out of it. To come back to the terrible 2000s. To face up to the cold truth: There are no time machines. And you can never go back home again.

[@Songwriter376]

No, you can never go home again. Really very sad if you think about it. The right now we are living this second will someday become the “ back then” so live it now with every bit of your being as hard as you can cause….you can never get the time back again.

[@bluethunder4542]

My parents bought my childhood home a month b4 my birthday, my dad is 90 and my mom still in there.reason I haven't grown up yet is home is always home ,for now.

[@breezeman5348]

Like you and many others like us, it's a trend to wanna go back but time is the enemy in this case. Pity but true 😁

[@matthiasPUA]

This time we live in is a modern hell. I spend all my time “time traveling “ like that

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Trust me the 1970s sucked from everything from music, clothing and overall bad taste.

[@d.alexanderholiday2878]

I like historical movies and this one was done nicely. The director made it believable and not too over the top or dramatic. I do wonder, however, what became of the girl/woman that he impregnates and then seems to abandon. And the Hoover angle was interesting to those of us who know more about him than this movie presents. Worth the watch and thank you for providing it.

[@rabindranathghosh1029]

😊ĺłp

[@judysanchez6329]

These stories were so juicy that my dad loved the watch the FBI , the fugitive 😢 The untouchables Perry Mason Everything to Do with crime And the law He was a police officer And had always wanted to be A lawyer? But circumstances of life were not permitted Life can be a Bitch 😢😂

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

This is actually what happens at the end, underworld or not ill things always leads to nowhere and if this lessons not fulfilled anyone then God Save them. Excellent story excellent performance by all the Crews who were related to make this film Better. Thanks for uploading 👌👑🙂🙏❤

[@Songwriter376]

Wow! Signs in geocery store window….Eggs: 15 cents, flour: 69 cents…imagine that.

[@Robbi496]

Yeah, but most folks only got paid 5 bux per day, if they were lucky?

[@breezeman5348]

I'll buy the store

[@alvinweaver1450]

@@breezeman5348 you people can't grasp simple common sense math. They didn't get paid 15 an hour for work either. If they had a good job they get bout 15$ a week

[@breezeman5348]

@@alvinweaver1450 Don't insult my intelligence champ. I didn't come down with the last drop of rain My previous comment was made 'tongue in cheek' Try getting out on the right side of the bed in your mornings ahead 🙄. All the best

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

Expensive. Flour was 99c for 2 kg here in the 80s at the supermarket

[@user-ty6do8yz4l]

William Conrad strikes again. What a voice! Often Paired up with Gary Lockwood.

[@christianorr1059]

Wow, I hadn’t see this since I was a preteen kid in the mid-1980s! Thanks so much for posting this! Ha

[@janiekcarney5482]

Interesting. Thank you.

[@tomweickmann6414]

I wonder how many of those period cars ended up in Jay Leno's collection. Go Jay!

[@TheSports50]

Thanks for putting this on. The Barker Gang was one of the worst. Ma Barker and her sons and Alvin Karpis combined were vicious killers and were involved in kidnapping

[@robertcrestohl9709]

Alvin Karpis was not a killer. He was a bank robber and kidnapper, but his kidnap victims were all released unharmed. If Karpis had murdered anybody....he would have gone to the electric chair. Nobody in any of his criminal circle was executed. Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie & Clyde would all have been executed if they had been taken alive.

[@travisfriedland9346]

You're wrong about Ma Barker Fred Barker and Alvin karpis were the brains of the game mom was an innocent woman 70 years old by that time she was killed in a raid by federal agents pardon the papers about her being leader the criminal mastermind excetera was pure hogwash

[@thomasmitchell7645]

One of the better and more factually-accurate films of the motor bandits of the 1930s depression era that graced American TV and theaters from 1967 to 1975. Karpis actually wrote a couple of books of memoirs upon his release from prison. The first dealt with his criminal career and the second with his time behind bars especially at Alcatraz island. He knew Charles Manson.

[@anajonda]

Manson credited the Montreal-born Karpis with teaching him guitar in Alcatraz.

[@daveyamericanpridegodbless9842]

WHERE'D HE MEET KARPIS AT?? NOT YELLING, VISION DISABILITIES SO THANX FOR UNDERSTANDING 😎✌️

[@thomasmitchell7645]

@@daveyamericanpridegodbless9842 If you mean where did Karpis meet Charlie Manson, it was in Alcatraz Prison before it closed down..

[@vernwallen4246]

Manson was never at Alcatraz.@@thomasmitchell7645

[@brucekopping1287]

@@thomasmitchell7645 manson was not at Alcatraz. manson and karpis met at McNeil Island Federal Prison. Karpis taught manson how to play the guitar

[@abhijitmukherjee720]

Excellent narration

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Quinn Martin And William Conrad RIP.

[@stevieray2804]

This has been a QUINN MARTIN production. EPILOG !

[@tonymac2368]

Wish someone would put up the one with Jimmy Stewart in it.

[@Clipgatherer]

Alvin Karpis died a “retiree” in Marbella, Spain, in 1979. His death was attributed to an overdose of prescription drugs. He was 72.

[@travisfriedland9346]

Yes that's perfectly true he actually served 33 years and was deported to Canada he was indeed a criminal in every sense of the word J Edgar Hoover didn't deserve his reputation it was all lies built on public relations propaganda etc etc

[@seamusburke9101]

Free to run before the relentless pursuit of a police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.

[@seamusburke9101]

William Conrad's voice takes me way back!

[@TigerDominic-uh1dv]

I like these kind of Movies 🎬 . They have a Story Line that you can Follow.

[@josephforest7605]

Is that Ben Walton , delivering newspapers and ratting to the Sheriff?

[@ronaldringler1497]

Kay Lenz was and is one lovely lady. Superb actress as well.

[@tnguy9696]

he did 26 years at Alcatraz longer than anybody else in 62 he transferred to McNeil island in Washington state and befriended Charles Manson

[@ianmangham4570]

Mcneil was no joke

[@billhobbs7077]

Taught our Charlie how to play guitar as well

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I Seen This On KING 5 In Reruns On 3 O'Clock Movie.

[@intercommerce]

What's King 5, eh preciousss? What's King 5?

[@normanwitt4692]

Quinn Martin has an excellent speaking voice and his commentary in this movie is superb

[@robertbishop5357]

That's William Conrad doing the speaking.

[@bunnygray4513]

Hoover was as crooked as the letter S and America gives this demon so much praise. Just shameful.

[@vernwallen4246]

Are you talking about"gay"Edgar Hoover?👡👠👠💄👚

[@brianmccarthy5557]

You're both ignorant and full of it. Hoover was a fairly heroic figure who long kept the Democrat Party from turning the FBI into their American version of the Gestapo, KGB and Stasi. Today they've succeeded into turning into a secret police organization. One way or another Hoover managed to deflect people as powerful as FDR from doing this. He also led the only American counterintelligence organization that was effective against the USSR. Things started to go to hell after he died. His enemies in the criminal world, who I assume are Bunny's sources, and Democrat intellectuals have worked tirelessly in the years since to blacken his name. With respect to the gay thing. Interesting that he would be the only major American it would be OK to sneer at for being a prominent gay man. However, he probably wasn't. He was just largely or completely without interest in sex, as shocking as that sounds in our modern obsessed society. His job and organization was his governing passion.

[@brendagray3374]

@@vernwallen4246 🤣😂🤣

[@brendagray3374]

@@brianmccarthy5557 the Boy was GAY

[@douglasturner6153]

I think being a hypocritical Gay was the least of Hoover's problems.

[@steelers6titles]

"Old Creepy" was the real leader of the Barker-Karpis gang, not Ma, who Karpis said was just an old hillbilly lady who was demonized by the Bureau to justify her being gunned down by them. Her four sons, however, were pretty bad.

[@markcampbell3734]

Absolute classic

[@edwardsalley1248]

What a load of crap ! In real life Hoover was hiding in the car until Karpis was in custody. Then he came and said Mr. Karissa you're under arrest to which Karpis replied " no shit ".

[@gamerboy-lw3hk]

Good movie, just showed the country that crime don't pay. And all will pay for what they do

[@parttysetzer6247]

The document's videos are so Good you get to the history and the story's of these mafia and gangsters of their time

[@steelers6titles]

Karpis dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder. They make interesting reading. He didn't think much of J. Edgar Hoover; the feeling was mutual.

[@robertcrestohl9709]

J. Edgar Hoover was one of the biggest assholes who ever lived. His agents had Karpis handcuffed and helpless when he appeared to take all the credit.

[@travisfriedland9346]

That much was probably true

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Robert Foxworth Did Play Alvin Karpis.

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Liked Him Better As Alvin Karpis.As Well As The Storefront Lawyers/Men At Law.I Really Did.Liked Robert Foxworth As Alvin Karpis.

[@sandrasanders706]

I was a fan of Robert Foxworth. I remember this film.

[@secretsquirrel6718]

Alvin Karpis was a canadian. His nickname was "old creepy" He wote two books. The alvin karpis story and anogher one about life on alcatraz. Suprisingly what the movie doesnt show you is these guys were bad alchoholics and drug users as well

[@factenter6787]

Yeh Karpis was born in my home town Montreal😔

[@secretsquirrel6718]

@@factenter6787 bunch of trouble causers up there!

[@kimtodd1202]

Big deal, n oh shite he was Canadian.....😂 A polite gun tottin, drug taking alcoholic 😂😂🏴

[@Johnketes54]

What drugs?

[@allen480]

Why didn’t he stay in Canada and why didn’t he get the electric chair?

[@daveroche6522]

Check out 'Murder in Coweta County' with Johnny Cash - superb movie.

[@originalkingalpha5116]

Johnny was a singer, not an actor. Actors should act, and singers should stick to singing. Period.

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

William Conrad RIP.

[@timothy8017]

I'm a Harris Yulin Fan. From way back.

[@seamusburke9101]

Narrated by William Conrad! Excellent.

[@watchman4835]

Well, if I didn't know better, I would say this young man at about one minute or so is the young lad who played Jason Walton on the Waltons...

[@diannemiller1895]

Enjoyed the history lesson very much. Love period movies. Thx for presentation. Lived n KC, MO area for nearly half life. The historic KC train station has the bullet holes on outside of bldg from AL Capone re Valentines Day massacre. The depression yrs wer big crime time n this country and very dangerous. No work avail so many took to crime for $. Sad that society glamorized much of it and that time.

[@starvingbuddha7622]

Kreepy Karpis taught charlie how to play gittar

[@ericflores136]

The old lady "looking for trouble" that's cute 😂

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Aired On CBS Friday Night Movies November 8,1974 On Friday Night.

[@davidmellish3295]

Nobody ever called him Alvin though,everyone called him by his alias ' Ray '

[@peterm1826]

Alvin Karpis taught Charles Manson how to play Guitar. While they were in prison.

[@blankstares4355]

I recognize the actor, Harris Yulin, who played Hoover in this, from an episode in Kojak.

[@borissavinkov440]

This is a pretty good movie, though it's obviously made for TV and edited to fit commercial breaks. The problem is the ending. It was filmed in a Los Angeles neighborhood that looks nothing like New Orleans. And Alvin was not arrested in his car. He was caught coming out of an office building on Canal Street, the main business thoroughfare. Hoover walked right past Karpis, then realized who he was and doubled back to make the arrest. The building is still there.

[@johnkelly2663]

Yes he was arrested in his car and by 20 agents while hoover hid in an alley and waited for the coast is clear.

[@sterneis1]

cool movie. old school

[@jjjohnson2009]

Great movie with important history

[@Robbi496]

William Conrad had the coolest voice in the history of brosdcsting

[@bluethunder4542]

Listen to his radio show Gunsmoke ,he's a legend on it.all shows are free online.

[@sharonz3337]

I loved his show Cannon, watched it all the time😊😊

[@cestmois9959]

If he hadn't been so fat he would have played Matt Dillon.

[@bluethunder4542]

@@cestmois9959 face wasn't A quality either ,but he was brilliant on the radio.wat a voice and wat a commanding presence 👏

[@cestmois9959]

The cops were just as murderous as the gangsters.

[@dragonight57]

There's good and bad in everything. Choosing a profession doesn't change a person's psycho character.

[@mjhanebenosa1396]

They deserve to die!the police can't let those criminals shoot them first

[@Johnketes54]

Thats a good reason to join the armed forces,Go to battle to kill the enemy within rules of engagement ofcourse

[@idolinocreon4418]

Awesoome!

[@robertclifton2211]

Good movie but sound quality was terrible.

[@Johnketes54]

Yes it was

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

It is interesting that chief of FBI Hoover himself was in field to arrest a notorious robber . And it was ridiculous that his mother was delighted with his robbery not scolding her son .

[@_Abjuranax_]

Watch Ma Barkers Killer Brood. 1960 B/W with Lurene Tuttle. Really funny stuff by todays standards, but her and her sons were a real family of murderous degenerates and thieves. And Karpis fit right in with them.

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

@@_Abjuranax_ By your recommendation , I watched Ma Barkers Killer 3 days ago in which she shot down policemen by her machine gun and which was so terrible . And it is true story ?

[@_Abjuranax_]

@@Thompson-xp1mk Based on a true story. But she was a lot meaner in real life.

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

@@_Abjuranax_ She committed robbery with her sons and got much money but failed in educating them for excellent persons ,which scarcely happens in South Korea where parents educate their children even if they themselves starve ,from which Korea has greatly developed economically adding good leaders .

[@_Abjuranax_]

@@Thompson-xp1mk She was definitely not a very good role model. Mother to the underworld doesn't look very well on a resume.

[@brianmccarthy5557]

"Creepy Al" Karpis, who was detested and feared by both guards and most inmates for his perverted evil was Charley Manson's mentor, and the closest thing he had to a father figure, during the many years they served together in Manson's early life.

[@stevieray2804]

There are also printed accounts stating that Karpis was the person who taught Charlie Manson how to play the guitar. HELTER SKELTER !!!

[@teachercharlesamericanengl2098]

Very interesting!

[@kimtodd1202]

Oh my god, what a horrid thing to teach someone 😂😂🏴

[@danfield6030]

@@kimtodd1202 I know dude. He shoulda taught him how to dj

[@stephenmitchell3569]

Odd this is pretty much a secret.

[@steveclapper5424]

A Quin Martin Production, that's all you have to say.

[@Johnketes54]

I thought all their stuff was good,especially in the UK

[@steveclapper5424]

Well they are what they are.

[@sonofaredshirt8329]

Ha Ha, Yes! That IS all you'd have to say and you said it very well! As I get older, more & more of these tiny little remembrances from childhood will pop up like the phrase a Quinn Martin production, and after every single time I'm starting to hear the words, "Those- were- the---- days" being sung by Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor. Oh well those were the "Days"!!!!

[@Mike20216]

Hoover was a genius at public relations and myth making

[@kimtodd1202]

Hoover was paranoid about everything n everyone, he was a nightmare with too much power, n a hypocrite. Worse than McCarthy n his witch trials. Hoover persecuted gays relentlessly when he was gay himself. His personal secretary, n lover, lived in the same huge, heavily secured house (specially built) under the pretext that being such a busy n important man he needed to have his secretary close to hand (pun intended). What a twat he was tho there were plenty like him n still are to this day. It livers me that people think that Hoover was some great man, the power he had was frightening. Especially if you were on the receiving end, he had files on just about everyone. The least amount of people such as him on the planet the better off we'd all be. Unfortunately things have only gotten much worse. I have no faith in the likes of any of their kind whatever acronym they go by.....🏴

[@billenright2788]

Kreepy Karpis was in prison with both Manson and Whitey Bulger.

[@tommyhemlock7915]

Bit iffy in some areas but a decent movie. Karpis doesn’t get the coverage Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and other gangsters of the time get for some reason.

[@paulramsey8187]

Notice the aluminum window glass frames in the storefronts at beginning of film. That did not exist in 1931. Not even in 1951

[@carolacoogler]

This. Is. A. Good. Movie”that’s. For. Showing it.

[@benancegeorge5480]

Nice

[@joshpritt2146]

1:37:00 Originally ended with the 1972-84 Big W Warner Bros. Television logo designed by Saul Bass

[@godfreymayhead251]

NO sound

[@travisfriedland9346]

I've always wondered what were Alvin karpis sources of information how did he find out about the banks trains and so on

[@Andrushka370]

My American friends, I appeal to you.Who is on the cinemageddon website, please watch the 1949 film white heat.We need to find a rare version of the film in color.

[@Palmit_]

sound is only coming from one channel (left).

[@sandrasanders706]

Thought it was my headphones..lol thanks!

[@intercommerce]

Isn't J.E. Hoover also Mel Burnstien, Chief Detective, Narcotics?

[@Jim-Tuner]

Alvin "Creepy" Karpis. He was like a father to Charles Manson.

[@gracesemenzato8743]

😈

[@doogboy]

WOW!

[@michaelhewitt258]

Free from political influence? Those days need to return

[@andrewlambert7246]

It must be John Dillinger.

[@pollyannapositive9192]

So hoover is a paperwork FBI

[@lindalawon9151]

The only thing. Hopefully, the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not use the boy on the bicycle as a set up to arrest Alvin Karpis. John Hoover did not make the arrest of Alvin Karpis as he said he would do. Not that I'm on Alvin's side but he was advises by his criminal associate to leave America and go to Brazil. El Stupido!

[@lindalawon9151]

Excellent Acting, Episode, Ending.

[@poopypants814]

They didn't try too hard to get the authentic look of the 30's down. More like the 70's in hair styles and clothing .... but this happens a lot

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Didn't Like Robert Foxworth In Falcon Crest,I Liked Him In The Storefront Lawyers As Well As Alvin Karpis Public Enemy No 1.Better.

[@Smartychase]

Do you mean him or the characters he played

[@bluecolor1600]

I liked Robert Foxworth in Falcon Crest too! Fantastic actor

[@joehall6559]

CHARLES MANSON met alvin in prison

[@brianfreel1473]

He looks like James Bond

[@ianmangham4570]

Run for the hills ma barker

[@mitchcumstein9808]

Funny line “free from politics”. If only

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

& of curse, Karpis is made into a hero.

[@Brian-yt8fu]

The actors look like real G Men. Well dressed as Hoover had strict dress codes.

[@bluecolor1600]

Just love Robert Foxworth!❤❤

[@MsAgriolouloudo]

There's no sound! Pity, I wanted to watch it the reviews are good 😔😢

[@dmkuchins6646]

Who was Stan, why was it their depression? :D