"Harry Caul will go anywhere to bug a private conversation." A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

"The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it's all true" A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

"The Godfather is now a movie." The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The early life & career of Vito Corleone in 1920's New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-Revolution 1958 Cuba.