A surveillance expert becomes personally interested in a case and finds himself involved with murder. At the height of Watergate, after the success of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola presented The Conversation. With boundless cinematic talent and a magnificent Gene hackman, Coppola portrays the tormented soul of a lone wolf and presents a stunning allegory about moral and personal responsibility. As always with Coppola, something in his cinematic syntax, the pace, and emotional momentum, captures the eye and ear. The result is spellbinding, stimulating, and exhilarating.