The Conversation: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest. A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Francis Ford Coppola ... (written by) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Gene Hackman ... Harry Caul: John Cazale ... Stan: Allen Garfield ... musician: saxophone for Gene Hackman (uncredited) David Shire ... orchestrator (uncredited) Script and Continuity Department . …

Enigmatic, frustrating, confusing, intelligent and overall extremely brilliant work by writer/director Francis Ford Coppola (Oscar-nominated for his screenplay) has surveillance expert Gene Hackman recording a conversation between Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest.

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Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Haskell Wexler, Thomas Laughridge, and Robert Shields in The Conversation (1974)

Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio.us Share this on LinkedIn The life of surveillance expert, Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) in The Conversation (1974, directed by Francis Ford Coppola) is one of ritual, fear and obsession. This man of many facets is identifiable by the clothes he wears, specifically because of their bland anonymity and ...

Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul is inexpressibly sad and lonely – a classic and poignant American everyman God’s surveillance is everywhere: this is the thought that weighs heavily on bugging expert and practising Catholic Harry Caul in Francis Ford Coppola’s eerie 1974 classic, now on rerelease. It was a movie that intuited ...

Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed this mystery thriller based on a conversation he had with Irvin Kershner. Although the script was written in the mid-1960s, the film wasn't released until 1974, shortly after the Watergate scandal broke.

Francis Ford Coppola had written the outline in 1966, but couldn't get financing until The Godfather (1972) became a success. Francis Ford Coppola 's personal favorite of his movies. Reportedly Gene Hackman 's favorite movie in which he has acted.

Gene Hackman excels in Francis Ford Coppola's tasteful, incisive 1974 study of the awakening of conscience in an electronic surveillance technician.