The Good Shepherd (film)

The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. De Niro also produced it with James G. Robinson and Jane Rosenthal.

A photograph and an audio recording on reeltoreel tape are dropped off anonymously at the home of Edward Wilson Matt Damon, a senior CIA officer, after the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba fails due to an undisclosed leak. While riding to work on the bus, Edward is approached by a young boy who asks if Edward has change for a dollar. Upon arriving at work, Edwards assistant checks the serial number of the dollar against a long list of serial numbers assigned to various code names and confirms that Edward has been given a dollar from Cardinal. The story then flashes back to 1939.In 1939 Edward is at Yale University and is invited to join Skull and Bones, a secret society. He is compelled to disclose a secret as part of his initiation he reveals that as a young boy in 1925 he discovered the suicide note left by his father, Thomas Timothy Hutton, although he says he never read it. After the ceremony, a fraternity brother tells him that Edwards father, an admiral, was to be chosen as Secretary of the Navy, until his loyalties were questioned. Afterwards Edward is recruited by an FBI agent Sam Murach Alec Baldwin, who claims that Edwards poetry professor, Dr. Fredericks Michael Gambon, is a Nazi spy, asking Edward to expose his professors background as well as implying that the Professor is homosexual Edwards actions result in Dr. Fredericks forced resignation from the university. ........

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