THE PARALLAX VIEW premieres in New York. Directed by Alan J. Pacula, adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne, from the novel by Loren Singer. A senator's murder springboards Warren Beatty's brash investigative reporter on a fatal collision course with the recondite machinations of a nebulous assasination bureau. One of the key conspiracy thrillers of the seventies.. With Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss and William Daniels.