Adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne, from the novel by Loren Singer, Alan J. Pacula's The Parallax View, premieres in New York. Warren Beatty stars as a newspaper reporter whose at first tentative investigation into the suspicious deaths of several witnesses to the murder of a presidential candidate sets him on a fatal collision course with a secretive, sinister organisation specialising in political assassinations.