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The Parallax View movie storyline: Senator Charles Carroll was assassinated by a lone gunman who also died at the scene, with no larger conspiracy involved in the assassination. Case closed. In the several following years after the assassination, six direct witnesses of the assassination – those that were featured in a published photograph – have themselves died, nothing seemingly tying these deaths together beyond the earlier event or deemed to be mysterious by authorities.
However those four still surviving witnesses shown in the photograph, including television news reporter Lee Carter and Carroll’s political advisor Austin Tucker, fear for their lives. Carter’s newspaper investigative reporter colleague and former lover, Joe Frady, who was also at the event when the senator was assassinated, does not believe the conspiracy theory that Carter fears. Frady changes his opinion when more witness deaths occur.
Frady, who has a history of irresponsibility in both his personal and professional life, decides to investigate. As he gets further into his investigative work, he does begin to think that the conspiracy theorists were correct, but that the conspiracy is much larger than even he could have imagined. Frady decides to go undercover, but there is race between Frady discovering the truth and the possible perpetrators discovering who Frady really is.
The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss. The screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr. was based on the 1970 novel[1] by Loren Singer. The story concerns a reporter’s investigation into a secretive organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary focus is political assassination.
The Parallax View (1974)
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn, Kelly Thordsen, Jim Davis, Bill McKinney, Stacy Keach Sr, Anthony Zerbe, William Jordan
Screenplay by: David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Production Design by: George Jenkins
Cinematography by: Gordon Willis
Film Editing by: John W. Wheeler
Costume Design by: Frank L. Thompson
Set Decoration by: Reg Allen
Music by: Michael Small
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: June 14, 1974
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