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The Parallax View (1974) Movie Overview
The Parallax View is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty, who was also a producer. The film was adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne from the 1970 novel by Loren Singer. The story concerns a reporter’s dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination. The Parallax View is one of a trilogy of thrillers directed by Pakula, along with Klute (1971) and All the President’s Men (1976); The Parallax View was the only one not released by Warner Bros. Pictures. TV newswoman Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) is one of many witnesses to the public assassination of presidential candidate Senator Charles Carroll (Bill Joyce) in the restaurant of the Space Needle in Seattle. A waiter armed with a revolver is seen and chased from the restaurant onto the roof of the building from which he falls. Meanwhile, a second waiter, also armed with a gun, leaves the crime scene unnoticed. A special committee brought together to investigate the killing concludes that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman. Three years la… Source
- The Parallax View Movie Details
- Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Tagline: There is no conspiracy. Just twelve people dead.
- Country: USA
- Run Time: 102 min
- Genre: Thriller
- Cast Overview
Warren Beatty as Joseph Frady
Paula Prentiss as Lee Carter- William Daniels as Austin Tucker
- Walter McGinn as Jack Younger
Hume Cronyn as Bill Rintels- Kelly Thordsen as Sheriff L.D. Wicker
The Parallax View Movie Review from New York Times
While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle’s Space Needle, but his newswoman former girlfriend Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) was… Source
The Parallax View Movie Details from Imdb
Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy so… Source
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