Conversation, The

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 seminal neo-noir thriller The Conversation symbolizes the uneasy line between technology and privacy – a topic more relevant than ever today. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards® and winner of the prestigious 1974 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or THE CONVERSATION is a tense, paranoid thriller, regarded as one of Coppola’s greatest films.

Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is an expert surveillance expert in San Francisco. His routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when he hears something disturbing in his recording of a couple; he may have captured something a lot more important than adulterous goings-on. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiralling into a web of secrecy, murder and paranoia.

THE CONVERSATION is a harrowing psychological thriller that co-stars Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest and Harrison Ford.

Special Features
Q&A with Walter Murch, filmed at Curzon Soho, 2017
Feature commentary with writer/director Francis Ford Coppola
Feature Commentary with Editor Walter Murch
Close-up on ‘The Conversation’
– Coppola dictates script
– Opening Sequence
– The Life of Harry Caul
– The Convention
– Introduction to Frank Lovista
– Jack Tar Hotel
– Police Station Ending
Harrison Ford screen test
Ciny Williams screen test
Composer David Shire interviewed by Francis Ford Coppola
Interview with Gene Hackman (1973)
Harry Caul’s San Francisco: Locations Then & Now
No Cigar 1956 short by Francis Ford Coppola
Theatrical Trailer
50th Anniversay Trailer
Behind the Scenes Stills gallery