Conversation, The  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 1974  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 3 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover 9 Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 4.31 out of 5, including 4 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis Francis Ford Coppola's provoking mystery-drama explores the morality of privacy and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, expert surveillance man. A routine wire-tapping job turns into a modern nightmare as Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. He begins to worry about what the tape may be used for and becomes involved in a maze of secrecy and murder. Set in San Francisco, the film also features Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford and Frederic Forrest. Nominated for Best Picture of 1974, The Conversation was made between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Gene Hackman  • Frederic Forrest  • Cindy Williams  • Allen Garfield  • John Cazale Writers:  • Francis Ford Coppola Producers:  • Francis Ford Coppola Directors:  • Francis Ford Coppola Product Information Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection Theatrical Trailer "Close-Up On The Conversation" Featurette Commentary by Director Francis Ford Coppola Commentary by Film Editor Walter Murch Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: English Studio: Paramount Pictures Production Year: 1974 Release Date: 12/12/2000 Length: 113 mins Rating: PG Chapters: 12 Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: 023074 UPC Code: 097360230741 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: National Film Registry, Action, Assassins & Hitmen, Classics, Crime Bargains: Under $7 Studios: Paramount Pictures Customers who bought this Title also bought 3 Days Of The Condor  DVD-Video Citizen Kane: 60th Anniversary Edition  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 4.31 out of 5, including 4 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review Who watches the watcher? - 4.5 out of 5  (12/21/2000) Who watches the watcher? Or as it might be better put in relation to "The Conversation", who listens to the listener? Francis Ford Coppola had just finished making "The Godfather" in 1971 and he declined the rights to the sequel until after he had finished with this little known thriller. Coppola wrote, produced and directed the entire film and in it, you can see his trademark touches. It's a very clever thriller that heightens the paranoid thought about who really is in charge. The fact t   more >> Customer Review It was a great movie! - 5 out of 5  (12/31/2001) One of Francis Ford Coppolla's best!   more >> Customer Review THE CONVERSATION - 3.75 out of 5  (4/14/2001) Francis Ford Coppola is still one of the greatest living filmmakers, even if lesser successes like THE RAINMAKER are not among his very best works, but he has never been better than with his film THE CONVERSATION. He wrote it and finally had the clout with the first GODFATHER film to make it. This is Coppola at his purest best too, in a story involving Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a very serious, professional, brilliant wire-tapper who orchestrates a complex multi-taping of a couple (Frederick   more >> Customer Review A seminal film from the 1970s. - 4 out of 5  (1/22/2001) The most European of all American films, "The Conversation" is slow and subtle and superb. Harry Caul is Gene Hackman's finest role and "The Conversation" is Francis Coppola's finest film. The commentaries of Coppola and Walter Murchare extras worth having. And, "The Conversation" has never looked better than this commemorative edition DVD. A truly seminal film from the 1970s.   more >>