Chinatown (1974)


Jack Nicholson          J J Gittes
Faye Dunaway            Evelyn Mulwray
John Huston             Noah Cross
Perry Lopez             Escobar
John Hillerman          Yelburton
Darrell Zwerling        Hollis Mulwray
Diane Ladd              Ida Sessions
Roy Jenson              Mulvihill
Roman Polanski          Man With Knife
Joe Mantell             Walsh
Richard Bakalyan        Loach
Bruce Glover            Duffy
Nandu Hinds             Sophie
James O Rear            Lawyer
James Hong              Evelyn s Butler
Beulah Quo (II)         Maid
Jerry Fujikawa (II)     Gardener
Belinda Palmer          Katherine
Roy Roberts             Mayor Bagby

Directed by:            Roman Polanski
Produced by:            Robert Evans, C.O. Erickson


Set in drought-ridden '30s L.A., a divorce specializing private detective gets his nose rearranged after 
sticking it into the connivings of a family-loving mogul and his mysterious daughter.

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JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn 
Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. 
Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he 
was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged 
into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's 
water supply.

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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. 
Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn't 
drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on 
water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.