A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Sound
The distorted saxophone riff will haunt your dreams.
Acting
Hackman's trembling hands say everything his mouth won't.
Direction
Coppola made this between Godfathers. Obsessed with his range.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Gene Hackman
Harry Caul
John Cazale
Stan
Allen Garfield
William P. 'Bernie' Moran
Frederic Forrest
Mark
Cindy Williams
Ann
Michael Higgins
Paul
Elizabeth MacRae
Meredith
Teri Garr
Amy Fredericks
Harrison Ford
Martin Stett
Robert Shields
The Mime
Ramon Bieri
Man at Party (uncredited)
Robert Duvall
The Director (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Coppola wrote this in 1966, before Watergate made surveillance paranoia mainstream. Art imitated, then life imitated back.
The film eerily predicted modern privacy debates decades before smartphones. Harry Caul is every tech worker with a conscience now.
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