"" The conspiracy thriller is an effective character study that exposes the emerging conscience of an estranged eavesdropper whose work once resulted in the death of three people:Harry Caul is an invader of privacy.As Julian listened to the orchestral score, he realized that the composition was his own work - a Scythian Rhapsody - it had been plagiarized by his teacher Professor Palmer.The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor (Paul Newman, who lost to Rod Steiger inIn he Heat of the Night (1967)), Best Supporting Actor (George Kennedy in a break-out role), Best Adapted Screenplay (Donn Pearce and Frank R.Masterful scenes included the sweeping crowd scenes outside the Notre Dame Cathedral, the "King of Fools" celebration, the military processions, and the deformed hunchback""s thrilling and daring rescue of condemned-to-die gypsy Esmeralda from being hanged on a scaffold, by swinging to her on a rope and whisking her back o Notre Dame, while crying "Sanctuary, Sanctuary.