There is no evidence of any wider conspiracy -- Intro to The Parallax View-1974 thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, w. Warren Beatty. TV newswoman (Paula Prentiss) one of many witnesses to assassination of candidate Sen. Charles Carroll in restaurant of Space Needle Seattle. A waiter armed with a revolver seen, chased from the restaurant onto roof from which he falls. Meanwhile, second waiter, also armed, 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 later Carter visits her former boyfriend and colleague, newspaper reporter Joe Frady (Warren Beatty), a talented crusading reporter with a reputation for drunkenness and professional irresponsibility, while Frady is working for a newspaper in Portland, Oregon. Lee tells Frady that she feels there is more to the killing than mere assassination - that six of the witnesses to Senator Carroll's assassination have died and she fears she will be next.
Parallax assassin/fake waiter is played by Billy McKinney, who portrayed the rapist in "Deliverance".
RobertStepanek 9 months ago
Thanks to Netflix online I discovered this movie just three weeks ago!...And I'm 39!!!...Great movie!! They need to make a Criterion DVD release of this movie.
PooBuS 1 year ago
Love this film!
CONSPIRACYThrillers 1 year ago 2