The Conversation (1974)
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.
The Conversation (1974)
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Released Year: 1974
Runtime: 113 minutes
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Casts: Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Higgins, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, Allen Garfield, John Cazale, Ramon Bieri, Frederic Forrest, Mark Wheeler, Elizabeth MacRae, Phoebe Alexander, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Robert Shields, Richard Hackman
IMDB: The Conversation (1974)
Storyline
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.
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Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times -
As he is played by Gene Hackman in The Conversation, an expert wiretapper named Harry Caul is one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies.
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Empire -
Another great, landmark American film of the '70s.
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TV Guide Magazine -
One of Coppola's very best.
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Variety -
A major artistic asset to the film - besides script, direction and the top performances - is supervising editor Walter Murch's sound collage and re-recording.
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The Guardian -
The Conversation is an immaculate thriller, a study in paranoia and loneliness, long in gestation, partly inspired by Antonioni's Blow-Up, and released as the Watergate scandal was unfolding.
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