Of course, if he hadn't then the real killers probably would have just pressed it into his hands anyway after he'd been shot. Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Frady does this foolishly in the finale, picking up the dropped sniper rifle that was just used to murder another candidate.Meanwhile, the Parallax Corporation is able to continue its murderous operations unscathed. The Bad Guy Wins: Frady not only fails to publicly unmask the true nature of the Parallax Corporation and prevent their assassination of a senator but is also killed at the scene and ends up being blamed for the assassination by the official investigation committee.In the course of the protagonist's investigation into this, two other candidates are assassinated years later as well, while he's framed for the latter and killed. Assassination Attempt: Based on a 1970 book of the same name, this film's plot opens with the assassination of a Senator who's a potential Presidential candidate.Ambiguously Gay: It's implied Tucker and his bodyguard are lovers, but nothing is explicitly stated.Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous if the Parallax Corporation always knew who Frady was, or if he was always going to have been set up as a patsy.He decides to infiltrate one of their programs, and the danger grows. Now suspicious, Frady begins to investigate, and discovers the late Caroll was linked to the shady Parallax Corporation. In spite of her fears that she's next, Frady brushes her off, only to learn the next day that she's been killed in a car accident. Three years later, he is approached by his ex-girlfriend and fellow reporter Lee Carter (Prentiss), who claims to have been one of a few witnesses to see a second gunman, and tells him that someone is killing these witnesses. note It's modeled on RFK's assassination rather than JFK's, but still. TV reporter Joe Frady (Beatty) is among the many people to witness the assassination of US Senator and possible presidential candidate Charles Caroll (William Joyce), who is shot while campaigning at a restaurant atop Seattle's Space Needle. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, and Paula Prentiss, about one reporter's search for the truth regarding a political assassination. The Parallax View is a 1974 conspiracy thriller film, directed by Alan J.
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