Notice how high billed Gordon Lewis is for his cinematography - his dark compositions perfectly match the dark goings-on, and Pakula likes to keep things at a distance, e.g. fight scene in river in which we can hardly see what's happening. Written by David Giler (Southern Comfort, The Money Pit) and Lorenzo Semple Jr (Fathom, Pretty Poison, Three Days of the Condor), novel Loren Singer, this is a perfectly timed American paranoia / conspiracy thriller. Warren Beatty is the dogged journalist investigating the deaths to a number of people who witnessed the killing of a political candidate.
With Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Kelly Thordsen, Bill McKinney (The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Shootist), Jo Ann Harris.
Also very well edited by John W Wheeler - the 'Parallax Test' movie alone is outstanding.
Willis once again received neither an Oscar nor BAFTA nomination.
'Future Shock' a bestselling non-fiction book by Alvin Toffler, is about the effects of too much change in too short a time - Wendell Armbruster Jr finds his Dad has been reading it in Avanti.
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