The Parallax View - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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The picture started principal photography without a finished screenplay.

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The composer for this film was Michael Small, whose similarly haunting score was heard in Marathon Man (1976). The score for All the President's Men (1976), by composer David Shire, was so strongly derivative of Small's score that it verged on plagiarism.

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The film is adapted from a 1970 novel by Loren Singer with the same title, about a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary enterprise is political assassination.