TMDB 8.1 1974 USA 130 min

Chinatown

Directed by Roman Polanski

You forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder in 1930s Los Angeles.

Starring
Jack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonPerry Lopez
with Burt Young, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Roman Polanski
Music — Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography — John A. Alonzo
Screenplay — Robert Towne
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Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler

Chinatown has no source novel. This is the genre it was built to disappoint.

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02 Companion Inherent Vice The same city, sixty years later, with the same water underneath it. → 03 Soundtrack Chinatown OST Jerry Goldsmith →

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