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Chinatown
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A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
Actors:
Charles Fogel,
Cosmo Sardo,
Beulah Quo,
Roy Roberts,
Jerry Fujikawa,
Elizabeth Harding,
George Justin
Charles Fogel
June 28, 1886
Cosmo Sardo
7 March 1909, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Beulah Quo
17 April 1923, Stockton, California, USA
Roy Roberts
19 March 1906, Tampa, Florida, USA
Jerry Fujikawa
18 February 1912, Monterey County, California, USA
Elizabeth Harding
George Justin
1916, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
United States
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January 03, 2013
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
February 04, 2014
Chinatown is deliciously, intolerably cruel as it toys with us.
March 27, 2009
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim.
January 03, 2013
Unmissable.
February 09, 2006
The hard-boiled private eye coolly strolls a few steps ahead of the audience.
May 18, 2016
As private investigator Jake Gittes, hired to dig up some dirt on Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer of Los Angeles's water department, Nicholson saunters round the city delivering one-liners with offhand brilliance.
January 18, 2013
As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.
January 05, 2013
This film is flawless.
August 05, 2003
In 1974 a director, a screenwriter, and a producer (Robert Evans, who for once deserves a few of the plaudits he's apportioned himself) could decide to beat a genre senseless and then dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy.
January 04, 2013
Polanski's telling of his tale of corruption in LA is masterly - thrilling, humorous and disturbing at the same time - and brilliantly played by John Huston and Faye Dunaway as well as Nicholson.
March 27, 2009
Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
A new private-eye melodrama that celebrates not only a time and a place (Los Angeles) but also a kind of criminality that to us jaded souls today appears to be nothing worse than an eccentric form of legitimate private enterprise.