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The Conversation

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Movie
1974
1h 53m
English
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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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 is in danger.
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Cast

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Gene Hackman
Harry Caul
John Cazale
Allen Garfield
William P. 'Bernie' Moran
Frederic Forrest
Cindy Williams
Michael Higgins
Elizabeth MacRae
Teri Garr
Amy Fredericks
Harrison Ford
Martin Stett
Mark Wheeler
Receptionist
Robert Shields
Phoebe Alexander
Ramon Bieri
Man at Party (uncredited)
GianCarlo Coppola
Boy in Church (uncredited)
Robert Duvall
The Director (uncredited)
Richard Hackman
Confessional Priest / Security Guar...
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Written By: Francis Ford Coppola

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2016moonlight says...
3 years ago
Great film about paranoia and the surveillance state. Memorable ending.
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AdamMorgan says...
6 years ago
I can't believe that I had not heard of this film until recently. In case you have not, it was one of Copola's early films. It stars Gene Hackman and John Cazale. Actually, Cazale was the reason that I had heard of the film. He made only a handful of films before dying of cancer. These films include the first two Godfathers, The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon. The film starts innocently enough - a simple scene between two secret lovers. What unfolds as the film goes on is quite extraordinary and often unexpected. I can't recommend it enough.
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nmahoney416 says...
6 years ago
A little slow. The whole concept of someone always listening is as relevant and scary as ever. Gene Hackman is really good.
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AlexanderZ says...
7 years ago
One of the 1970s best!
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CinemaSerf
9 months ago
Gene Hackman is superb here as "Harry" - a super-efficient surveillance expert who discovers in the line of duty that a couple he is monitoring might well be about to be murdered. It becomes clear that the couple - Cindy Williams & Frederic Forrest are having an affair but that is just the tip of th More
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drqshadow
7/10  3 years ago
Gene Hackman plays a reclusive surveillance mastermind, so terrified by the prospect of tasting his own medicine that he's grown certifiably obsessive-compulsive. He's also a deeply religious altruist, which stands in sharp contrast to the seedy nature of his business and the people who pay More
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tensharpe
one year ago
"The Conversation" is a tense thriller that explores how paranoia can take over all aspects of everyday life once something disturbing is discovered.

Paid to eavesdrop on two people in a public place, Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman ) records the conversation and after some work produces a tape with c More
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talisencrw
6 years ago
Unfortunately, it appears with every passing day that the great American paranoid political thrillers of the 60's and 70's, with its strongest work bookended by 'The Manchurian Candidate' (eerily foreseeing the JFK assassination) and 'All the President's Men' (placing a coda of closure on the Waterg More
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