The Parallax View
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Released
- 1974
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1974
Storyline
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Top credits
Warren Beatty — Joseph Frady
Paula Prentiss — Lee Carter
William Daniels — Austin Tucker
Walter McGinn — Jack Younger
Did you know
• Alan J. Pakula asked for an empty banquet room for the final scene, in order to increase the nightmarish mood.
• At the suggestion of actor Warren Beatty and screenwriter David Giler, the profession of Beatty's character of Joseph Frady was changed from a police officer to a newspaper journalist.
• The film's director Alan J. Pakula described the picture as "sort of an American myth based on some things that have happened, some fantasies we may have had of what might have happened, and a lot of fears a lot of us have had . . . The Parallax View was a whole other kind of filmmaking for me".
User reviews
Existentialism with a political twist
One of the most memorable of 70s paranoia films.
One of My Favorite Movie Genres
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
