
The Parallax View(1974)
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.


Peter Graves
Jim Gideon

Katherine Justice
Libby Stockton

Pernell Roberts
Brock Dillon

John Anderson
Jason Monroe

Diana Douglas
Meg

Tom Rosqui
Fletcher

Mills Watson
Father Sebastian

Jack Knight
'Rocky' Flanagan

Joe E. Tata
Bobby Dimasco

Hank Brandt
Alan Stockton
Dead Man on the Run is a thriller, tv movie film released in 1975 exploring themes of conspiracy, political assassination. Directed by Bruce Bilson, it stars Peter Graves, Katherine Justice, Pernell Roberts. A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.
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