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This Month's Feature 1620 Glenwood Avenue Raleigh, NC June 11th 7:00 p.m. |
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Chinatown Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover, Nandu Hinds, and James Hong. Screenplay by Robert Towne and an uncredited Roman Polanski. Musical Score by Jerry Goldsmith. Cinematography by John A. Alonzo. 1974. Color. 131 minutes. R |
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In Chinatown ex-cop turned private investigator, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), makes a comfortable living off his métier, matrimonial cases. It seems like business as usual when a Mrs. Mulwray (Diane Ladd) hires him to follow her husband whom she suspects of straying. The husband in question is Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Water and Power Company. While Los Angeles withers from a drought, Gittes and his operatives trail Mulwray from one water source to another. Gittes' assistant declares, "The guy's got water on the brain." Finally, they catch Mulwray with a pretty, young blonde. When the incriminating photographs subsequently appear in the tabloids, the real Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) arrives at Gittes' office and threatens to sue him for defamation of her husband's character. Gittes does not take being duped lightly and begins investigating on his own. He protests, "I am not supposed to be the one who's caught with his pants down." The search slowly uncovers an ambiguous and complex web of secrets, plots, deceptions, double dealings, and murder. |
