There are no guns, gore, action or even supernatural menace in Frances Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation,” but it’s one of the most disturbing and engrossing films movies I’ve ever seen. I discovered it while I was channel surfing as a kid, and it has never left me.
Five decades later, the tale seems even more unsettling. “The Conversation” follows surveillance expert Harry Caul (played by Gene Hackman) as he struggles to get a coherent recording out of a young couple (Cindy Williams of “Laverne and Shirley” and Frederic Forrest) as they stroll through Union Square in San Francisco. The two talk as loud music and an annoying mime (Robert Shields), thinking no one can hear them.
The audience slowly spots Harry and operators pointing enormous microphones at the lovers.
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