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Chinatown

You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.

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Chinatown — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • June 20, 1974
  • Runtime
  • 130 min
  • Genres
  • Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Director
  • Roman Polanski

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Chinatown — Cast

Jack Nicholson photo Jack Nicholson J.J. 'Jake' Gittes Faye Dunaway photo Faye Dunaway Evelyn Cross Mulwray John Huston photo John Huston Noah Cross Perry Lopez photo Perry Lopez Lieutenant Lou Escobar Burt Young photo Burt Young Curly John Hillerman photo John Hillerman Russ Yelburton Darrell Zwerling photo Darrell Zwerling Hollis I. Mulwray Roman Polanski photo Roman Polanski Man with Knife

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