Elizabeth MacRae

Gomer Pyle, a naive country boy, leaves his home in Mayberry, NC to join the U.S. Marine corps. His perpetual wide-eyed innocence frequently gets on the nerves of his tough, loudmouthed sergeant.

This Oscar®-nominated classic directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman is an enthralling character study inspired by Antonioni’s Blow-Up. Embodying the Cold War era of paranoia with formal and political rigor, The Conversation deservingly won the Palme d’Or in 1974.