Star Rating- 3Length of Film- 113 minutes
Director- Francis Ford Coppola
Cast- Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Michale Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Mark Wheeler, Robert Shields, & Phoebe Alexander
Oscar Nominations- Francis Ford Coppola (best picture), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay), Walter Murch & Art Rochester (sound)
Cannes Film Festival- Francis Ford Coppola (Golden Palm, ppirze of the ecumenical jury-special mention)
Henry Caul (Gene Hackman) was hired to follow his clients wife, because he suspects she's cheating on him. Henry follows the couple and successfully has a recording of the boyfriend saying, "he'd kill us if he got the chance."
He gives the recording to his client, and he hears the recording, and fears for the wife and boyfriends safety. In the recording he hears that they're going to meet at specific hotel at, certain date, and time. Becoming obsessed with this case, he gets the hotel room next to theirs, he drills a hole to the other hotel room to hear their conversation.
The hotel had bathroom block windows and a body was smashed up against it, Henry viewing it all...Henry flushes the toilet, and it overflows with blood and towels.
In the end, the quote "he'd kills us if he got the chance" wasn't said by the boyfriend, worried that THEY were going to die...
In the end, Henry was threatened to keep his mouth shut, because they were listening. He tore his house to shreds to find the bug. And when I say, tear his house apart, I'm talking about the hard wood floors, and the walls.
The best party of the movie was finding out the boyfriend/wife committed murder, and seeing Henry tear his house apart, never finding the bug.
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