The score in the "Pong" game between the scientist and the monkey.
The sheriff's police cruiser switches from a 1973 Plymouth Satellite Custom to a 1973 Dodge Coronet where Frady takes a shortcut through a construction site.
And when he crashes the cop car in a local Safeway, the cop cruiser is a 1973 Plymouth.
During the chase, right up until Joseph Frady crashes his stolen police car, the driver of his car is wearing a wide-brimmed sheriff's hat.
He crashes with the hat, but gets out of the car hat-less.
In the opening Independence Day parade sequence, there are no leaves on the tree branches visible as the senator and his wife pass by, but the leaves would be full and green on July 4th in Seattle.
Bill Rintels takes the lid off the coffee cup he just has been delivered and throws it in what is supposed to be an office garbage bin.
You can clearly hear the lid hitting the floor and taking a second to stabilize.
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.
On the positive side, it stars Warren Beatty at the time when he was a great leading man. It also starred Paula Prentiss, another plus.
After the optimism and idealism of the 1960s came the scepticism and unease of the 1970s. The assassination of President John Kennedy had been shocking and the findings of the Warren Commission had left the majority of the public unconvinced.
As my summary suggests, this film is akin to an ample list of conspiracy films during the above time period, not the least of which was "Three Days of the Condor". "Parallax's" story line follows a fairly linear progression of events which lead our protagonist, Joe Frady (Warren Beatty), into a morass of entanglements which seem to point in the direction of a so-called security firm entitled the "Parallax" corporation.
So this is another one that you can view for free right now on Netflix. I am going to file this one under "lost classic.
It's long been said that one of the reasons George Lucas went and made "Star Wars" was to lighten the bleak mood of '70s cinema. And I have to believe that "The Parallax View" is a chief contributor to that cultural feeling.
Warren Beatty plays reporter Joe Frady, whose investigation of the assassination of a U.S.
POOF! What a dud!
The 1970's saw an outpouring of conspiracy movies in response to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Dr. King plus the revelations of the Watergate scandal.
Alan j. Pakula did some really fine films as a director.
