Film · Crime
Chinatown
“You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.”
19742h 10mDir Roman Polanski7.9TMDB
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Top Cast
64 total
Jack Nicholson
as J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Faye Dunaway
as Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston
as Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
as Lieutenant Lou Escobar
Burt Young
as Curly
John Hillerman
as Russ Yelburton
Darrell Zwerling
as Hollis I. Mulwray
Roman Polanski
as Man with Knife
The scene we cut
Forget it, Jake
The most quoted last line in noir and nobody in the scene understands it.
Polanski fought Towne for the bleak ending. Towne wanted Evelyn to live.
All the scenes we have cutOn Film Fanatics
Where Chinatown shows up.
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