Amazon.com Essentials:
Directed by Alan J. Pakula (All the President's
Men, Sophie's
Choice), this is an excellent, paranoid thriller and a
benchmark for films of this type from the 1970s. Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde)
plays Joseph Frady, an arrogant investigative reporter who witnesses
the assassination of a United States senator and then discovers that
other reporters who were on the scene are dying under mysterious
circumstances. With the help of his editor (Hume Cronyn), Frady goes
underground to infiltrate the Parallax Corporation, which uses mind
control to train assassins. And Frady might be the next one in line to
take a fall. Featuring a classic brainwashing sequence and laced with
intensity from start to finish, The Parallax View is essential
viewing for fans of the political thriller genre. --Robert Lane
