Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Conversation
Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business.
1974 · 1h 54m · PG
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Overview
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Gene Hackman as Harry Caul
- John Cazale as Stan
- Allen Garfield as William P. 'Bernie' Moran
- Frederic Forrest as Mark
- Cindy Williams as Ann
- Michael Higgins as Paul
- Elizabeth MacRae as Meredith
- Teri Garr as Amy Fredericks
- Harrison Ford as Martin Stett
- Mark Wheeler as Receptionist
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Coppola manages to turn an expert thriller into a portrayal of the conflict between ritual and responsibility without ever letting the levels of tension subside or the complicated plot get muddled.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Haunting and bothersome.
Nora Sayre, New York Times
Fresh
A taut, intelligent thriller.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A bleak and devastatingly brilliant film.
Time Out
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