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Title: The Parallax View (1974)
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| Warren Beatty | ... | Joseph Frady | |
| Paula Prentiss | ... | Lee Carter | |
| William Daniels | ... | Austin Tucker | |
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Walter McGinn | ... | Jack Younger |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Bill Rintels | |
| Kelly Thordsen | ... | Sheriff L.D. Wicker | |
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Chuck Waters | ... | Thomas Richard Linder |
| Earl Hindman | ... | Deputy Red | |
| William Joyce | ... | Senator Charles Carroll (as Bill Joyce) | |
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Betty Murray | ... | Mrs. Charles Carroll (as Bettie Johnson) |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Parallax Assassin | |
| Jo Ann Harris | ... | Chrissy - Frady's Girl (as JoAnne Harris) | |
| Ted Gehring | ... | Schecter - Hotel Clerk | |
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Lee Pulford | ... | Shirley - Salmontail Bar Girl |
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Doria Cook-Nelson | ... | Gale from Salmontail (as Doria Cook) |
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 somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth. Written by Philip Brubaker <[email protected]>
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In all the comments, all the reviews, no one really gets the point of the film, and the clever wordplay involved. Parallax means the different views of an object you get from different angles, mostly used when describing the position of stars (e.g. stellar parallax). In this context, the parallax is between the "official" view - which points to the anti-social, outsiders prepared by Parallax Corporation as their patsies - and the truth, wherein Parallax Corporation has one, maybe two assassins who actually do the real work. By providing these miscreants as window-dressing for their real assassins, the Corporation creates a scenario where the real assassin goes free.
This is the big thing no one gets about the movie - Frady's not being trained as an assassin, he's not being brainwashed - he's being tested to see if he can fit the profile they need for a patsy.