One of the great films of the seventies may also be the least known masterpiece of the Bay Area's own Francis Ford Coppola, though it won the Grand Prize at Cannes. Shot in San Francisco, this obsessive study of privacy and technology is an intimate and deeply felt work. It is also a film lover's delight, with the most intricately conceived sound and visuals this side of Hitchcock. Gene Hackman's Harry Caul is a crack wiretapper, a professional eavesdropper who is personally guarded to the point of paranoia. He is haunted in his dark moments by the questionable morality of what he does. Curiosity and oblique concern draw Harry inextricably into what might be a love story, a murder mystery and, more, a horror tale of everyday evil.