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Heard in the Street.(The Conversation)(Movie review)(Brief article)

The New Yorker

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Between "The Godfather" (1972) and "The Godfather, Part II" (1974), Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed a small-scale thriller, "The Conversation," which, like Hitchcock's "Rear Window," is an authentic American classic of voyeurism and paranoia. Gene Hackman, in glasses and a mustache, is the repressed, unhappy Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who trains multiple microphones on an adulterous couple (Frederic Forrest and Cindy Williams) meeting in San Francisco's Union Square. Their conversation, which ...

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