The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 seminal neo-noir thriller THE CONVERSATION symbolises 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.
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- 64-page booklet with 4 new essays
- Original soundtrack cassette tape
- Original and new posters
- Q&A with Walter Murch, filmed at Curzon Soho, 2017
- Behind the Scenes Stills
- Gallery
- 50th Anniversary trailer
- 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
- 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, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Theatrical Trailer