The Conversation

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• Movie Goof (continuity error): After Harry Caul has violently closed the hotel curtains, they appear open, and then closed again.
• SPOILER: When Harry Caul turns on the TV in the Jack Tar Hotel to blot out the sound of the murder in the neighboring room, the broadcaster is talking about Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal - itself triggered by a notorious piece of bugging.
• Francis Ford Coppola cited his conversation with fellow director Irvin Kershner about surveillance as the basis and theme of the film.
• Gene Hackman later plays a former NSA agent who is a surveillance expert in Enemy of the State, and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from this film.