Chinatown(1974)
movie - first aired/released 1974-06-20 - 130 min - audience 7.9
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Roman Polanski
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.
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Cast
Jack NicholsonJ.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Faye DunawayEvelyn Cross Mulwray
John HustonNoah Cross
Perry LopezLieutenant Lou Escobar
Burt YoungCurly
John HillermanRuss Yelburton
Darrell ZwerlingHollis I. Mulwray
Roman PolanskiMan with Knife
Diane LaddIda Sessions
Richard BakalyanDetective Loach
Joe MantellLawrence Walsh
Roy JensonClaude Mulvihill
James HongEvelyn's Butler
Bruce GloverDuffy- Nandu HindsSophie
James O'RearLawyer
Beulah QuoMaid- Jerry FujikawaGardener
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- Belinda PalmerKatherine
Roy RobertsMayor Bagby
Noble WillinghamCouncilman- Elliott MontgomeryCouncilman
Rance HowardIrate Farmer- George JustinBarber
C.O. EricksonCustomer
Fritzi BurrMulwray's Secreatry
Charles KnappMortician- Claudio MartínezBoy on Horseback
- Freddie RobertoCross' Butler
Allan WarnickClerk
John HollandFarmer in the Valley
Jesse VintFarmer in the Valley- Jim BurkFarmer in the Valley
- Denny ArnoldFarmer in the Valley
- Elizabeth HardingCurly's Wife
- John RogersMr. Palmer
- Cecil ElliottEmma Dill
Paul JenkinsPoliceman
Lee de BrouxPoliceman- Bob GoldenPoliceman
- Don AmesTownsman (uncredited)
Jack BerleTownsman (uncredited)- Duke FishmanSign Painter on Door (uncredited)
- Charles FogelRetirement Home Resident (uncredited)
Bob HarksPoliceman (uncredited)- Robert HitchcockCouncilman (uncredited)
Michael JeffersTownsman (uncredited)- John MarlinWaiter (uncredited)
- Alan MarstonAssistant (uncredited)
- Rose MichtomRetirement Home Resident (uncredited)
Monty O'GradyCouncilman (uncredited)- Joe PineTownsman (uncredited)
- Murray PollackCouncilman (uncredited)
- Anthony RedondoRestaurant Patron (uncredited)
Cosmo SardoBarber (uncredited)- Jack SlateTownsman (uncredited)
- Owen SongPedestrian (uncredited)
- Norman StevansMaitre D' (uncredited)
- Paul VanAssistant (uncredited)
- Richard WarrenDriver (uncredited)
- Wally WestTownsman (uncredited)
- Chalky WilliamsBailiff (uncredited)
- Kai J. WongPedestrian (uncredited)
- Sally YarnellCommittee Reporter (uncredited)
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