Despite being made twenty years after the classic Film Noir period ended and being shot in color, Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) still managed to capture all the atmosphere and feel of it's forebears and hence has become a true heavyweight in the genre. Full of grit, sexuality, corruption and mystery, it is a tense masterpiece of 1970's Cinema.
Private Investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) specializes in cases involving cheating spouses...
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson |
He is hired by an impostor wife to investigate Mr. Mulwray, the Water and Power Commissioner for Los Angeles, who is suspected of cheating. Gittes' snooping reveals strange findings, and when Mr. Mulwray is found dead, he grows more suspicious and inquisitive. This leads him be involved with Mulwray's real wife, Evelyn (Faye Dunaway)...
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway |
Part of the mystery involves the building of a dam, the needless disposal of tons of the City's water supply during a major drought...
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson |
and the purchase of acres of barren farmland surrounding Los Angeles...
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson |
The web grows more dangerous as Evelyn's father, Noah Cross (John Huston), a powerful man, is increasingly implicated in the events...
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson |
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway |
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| Chinatown. 1974: Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway |
