| | ChinatownSynopsis: This brooding 1974 tale of corruption, murder and sex in 1930s L.A. is truly a Roman Polanski classic. L.A. detective Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is a cynical private eye drawn against his will into a bizarre case involving a beautiful, mysterious woman, a ruthless tycoon and a plot to control the city's water supply. Jake is initially hired by a young woman to investigate her husband whom she suspects is having an affair. But it turns out the woman is an imposter and when the real wife Evelyn Mulwray (Dunaway) appears, Jake discovers a complicated plot against the husband, a sex scandal and a plot to control the city's water. |
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