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.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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) |
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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 <coda@nando.net>
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30 September 1974 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Zeuge einer Verschwörung See more »Filming Locations:
Griffith Park & Southern Railroad - 4400 Crystal Springs Dr, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Joseph Frady: What's that?
Jack Younger: Who are you?
Joseph Frady: [taken aback] Who am I?
Jack Younger: You're not Richard Paley. Your service records don't check.
Joseph Frady: They don't?
Jack Younger: There was a Richard Paley in the 1st Air Cavalry, but among other things, he's dead.
Joseph Frady: Gee, I'm sorry to hear that.
Jack Younger: So were we. So... who are you really?
Joseph Frady: [getting defensive] Look, I don't need to tell you anything. You're not a cop.
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The film was made and released about four years after its source novel of the same name by Loren Singer had been first published in 1974. See more »Goofs
When the deputy pulls up to the sheriff's house, he parks pretty much right behind the sheriff's car. Yet the subsequent shot looking out from the house toward the two cars shows the deputy's car quite a bit past the sheriff's vehicle. See more »Quotes
Jack Younger: Just one more thing.Joseph Frady: What's that?
Jack Younger: Who are you?
Joseph Frady: [taken aback] Who am I?
Jack Younger: You're not Richard Paley. Your service records don't check.
Joseph Frady: They don't?
Jack Younger: There was a Richard Paley in the 1st Air Cavalry, but among other things, he's dead.
Joseph Frady: Gee, I'm sorry to hear that.
Jack Younger: So were we. So... who are you really?
Joseph Frady: [getting defensive] Look, I don't need to tell you anything. You're not a cop.
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A US Senator is assassinated and the official inquiry concludes it was the work of a lone gunman. Three years later, with 6 witnesses dead, a TV reporter present at the killing is frightened for her life. She takes her fears to a journalist ex-boyfriend. At first he is sceptical...
Brilliant paranoid thriller from Pakula, utilising choppy realism and naturalistic dialogue to create a bleak and uncompromising picture of cynical, corporate conspiracy within US politics. Beatty has never been better as the ambitious journo-hack Joe Frady, and he is superbly supported by Cronyn, Daniels and a deeply compelling cameo from Prentiss. You can bet this wasn't diluted by audience testing prior to release... unmissable.