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Chinatown
Release date 20th June 1974
Country : USA
Running time : 131 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Screenplay by Robert Towne
Directed by Roman Polanski
DVD VerdictRelease date 20th June 1974
Country : USA
Running time : 131 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Screenplay by Robert Towne
Directed by Roman Polanski
Private
investigator J.J.Jake Gittes discovers a plot to buy cheap, unwatered
land for low prices, water the land, and sell it for millions of
dollars. The plot is masterminded by the villainous Noah Cross.
Possibly a bit overrated but still
excellent thriller with a wonderful though somewhat complicated script.
Nicholson is excellent as the detective, director Huston brilliant as
the villain and the movie conveys the atmosphere of 30s' LA very
well but still gives the noir thriller a modern edge.
"You are swept along as helpless as any of
the corpses so unaccountably drowned in empty lake beds." Dilys Powell
DVD
available from Paramount Home Video :
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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