Already in hell [pointing up mistakenly] or in heaven [pointing down mistakenly].Sorry for the grave diggers.Hard work.It is frost.[The film both begins and ends with a funeral sequence and the burial of the same person.]Holly hurriedly rushes to the gravesite in the cemetery to attend Harry""s funeral.As he approaches, he inquires about the cryptic ceremony, and is told by a distant onlooker (later identified as Major Calloway): "A fellow called Lime.Writer Paul Osborn""s screenplay adapted John Steinbeck""s 1952 novel with the same title for this dramatic Warner Bros...Above all, remember you must be cavalier, dashing!" BackgroundThe Conversation(1974) is the slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic surveillance and threat of new technologies that is examined through the private, internalized life of a lonely and detached expert ""bugger.They had a dinner table reservation for 7 pm that evening, but Tony announced that unexpected business matters ("a slight alteration in plans") kept him from joining hem - he had to prepare an urgent report for his boss - but hey should proceed without him.