The Conversation
Harry Caul, a Catholic who loves jazz music and is devout Catholic, plays his saxophone as well as listening to jazz records. A San Francisco-based expert in electronic surveillance, he owns and runs his small business. His ability to design and build his own surveillance equipment is what makes him a leader in the field. Stan, Stan’s business partner, is often left out of the loop about what is going on at work because he is a very private, solitary person in his professional and personal lives. He is trying to keep his privacy in mind, so he doesn’t let anyone enter his home and he telephones his clients via pay phone. Stan and his latest task (a hard one) was to record the intimate discussion between a couple who met in noisy Union Square. His client is known as the director. He agreed to give the recording and photos of the conversation to Stan in exchange for payment. Harry is concerned about the couple’s lives based on what he hears from the recording and Martin Stett as his assistant. Harry was once detached from the recording but has become more concerned about the death of three people who were killed as a result of an audio recording that he did for another job. Harry must decide whether he will give the recording to the director and if he is going to try to save the lives of the couple using the information. Harry finds himself caught in the middle of his worst nightmare as he sets out to investigate this case. –Huggo
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Elizabeth MacRae, Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Michael Higgins
Country: United States
