The Parallax View

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R,1hr 42min

Genre:

Action

Released:

June 14, 1974

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures

Starring:

Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels ... More

Synopsis: 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 there. Even after a government commission concludes that it was a freak lone assassin, Lee tells Joe that she fears for her life since other witnesses ... Full Synopsis

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	Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review Made between Klute (1971) and All the President's Men (1976), The Parallax View was the most paranoid film in Pakula's paranoia trilogy. The influence of the Parallax Corporation appears to be limitless; the questions about the Kennedy assassination and the conclusion of the Watergate affair in 1974 only underlined how much the public didn't know about home-grown threats to democracy and free will. ... Read Review

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	Warren Beatty Joseph Frady Hume Cronyn Editor Edgar Rintels William Daniels Austin Tucker Paula Prentiss Lee Carter