A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 14 wins & 17 nominations total
Elizabeth MacRae
- Meredith
- (as Elizabeth Mac Rae)
Ramon Bieri
- Man at Party
- (uncredited)
Gian-Carlo Coppola
- Boy in Church
- (uncredited)
George Dusheck
- TV Anchor
- (uncredited)
Robert Duvall
- The Director
- (uncredited)
Richard Hackman
- Confessional Priest
- (uncredited)
- …
George Meyer
- Salesman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe blue Mercedes limousine that Cindy Williams is sitting in near the end of the film was won by Francis Ford Coppola on a bet with Paramount Pictures. Coppola had complained about the station wagon he shared with five other passengers during the filming of The Godfather (1972). Studio executives told him that if The Godfather had grossed a certain amount, they would spring for a new car. After The Godfather became the highest grossing film of all time, Coppola and George Lucas went to a dealer and picked out the Mercedes, telling the salesman to bill Paramount Pictures.
- GoofsWhen Caul is in Stett's office alone, he walks over to the desk and picks up one of Stett's wife's cookies. He smells it and puts it back in the dish and then looks through the telescope. When Stett returns, he hands Caul the money and takes the tapes. When the film cuts to a shot of Caul thinking about the arrangement, the cookie reappears. Caul puts this cookie back in the dish, too.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Green Fog (2017)
Featured review
"The Conversation" is a really great movie. I was quite surprised when I saw it. Not at how good it was, but how few people have seen it or heard of it. This is a classic suspense thriller, and a terrifying psychological horror film! From the opening credits, I, like the characters, was unsure of where I was going, or what the opening conversation (which is what the entire film is built around) might lead to. It seemed so unusually powerful, despite its masterfully simplistic execution. There is no overkill or excess in this film, nor is it under written or underplayed. It's just perfect! And I was even more surprised at how little was shown, and how much it could engross or frighten the hell out of me! My heart was racing, even though there was little action! This is the kind of film Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to direct. The direction went to another master instead, Francis Ford Coppola. I felt ahead of the movie at its opening credits. But then, it blasted me and got miles ahead of me. It is an attack on our psyche and our fear, and it's amazing how, like the film itself, the conversation in the film that seemed so small and irrational could lead to something as big as it did!
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- Also known as
- La conversación
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,824,093
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,494
- Jan 16, 2022
- Gross worldwide
- $4,858,263
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