MOVIES - Sept. 29, 1988

The retired federal agent who headed the Patty Hearst investigation in the 1970s says that many of the events portrayed in the new Paul Schrader film “Patty Hearst” are inaccurate or misleading. The film--which describes the ordeal and seeming conversion of heiress Patricia Hearst to a violently radical philosophy after her 1974 kidnaping--”is an apology for Patty Hearst,” according to former FBI agent Charles Bates, 68. “Anyone who sees the movie won’t have any idea of what the facts were because it only shows one side.” The former G-man told the Associated Press that he didn’t believe Hearst could determine how long she was kept blindfolded in a closet when she was abducted, and Bates added that the events leading to Hearst’s capture are presented out of chronological order in the film.