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The Conversation
Why this pick
Its meticulous surveillance perspective and lonely urban soundscape build the same era-specific dread that a hidden system is always operating just beyond the protagonist’s grasp.
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MOVIE1974 1h 42m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
TV newswoman Lee Carter witnesses the assassination of presidential candidate Charles Carroll atop Seattle's Space Needle. A waiter armed with a revolver is pursued and falls to his death while a second waiter, also armed, leaves the scene unnoticed. A Select or special committee decides that the killing was the work of the dead waiter but conspiracy theories subsequently arise. Three years later, Carter visits her former boyfriend and colleague, newspaper reporter Joe Frady, claiming that others must have been behind the assassination as six of the witnesses to the killing have since died and she fears she will be next. Frady does not take her seriously. Carter is soon found dead in what is officially ruled as a simple drug overdose.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Warren Beatty
Joseph Frady
Hume Cronyn
Editor Bill Rintels
Paula Prentiss
Lee Carter
Bill McKinney
The Parallax Assassin
William Joyce
Senator Charles Carroll
Doria Cook-Nelson
Gale - Blond Salmontail Bar Girl
William Jordan
Tucker's Aide
Lee Pulford
Shirley - Brunet Salmontail Bar Girl