With an extraordinary lead performance by Jack Nicholson, incredible direction from Roman Polanski, and one of the all-time great screenplays by Robert Towne, Chinatown has remained an enduring cinematic classic.
Chinatown was not only among the greatest film noirs of all time but has consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever produced. As a multi-layered story of greed, corruption, and psychological intrigue, this was a film that kept on giving and revealed new facets of itself with each subsequent viewing. Yeah! And reading. Multi-fucking-layered screenplay, too!
The Chinatown screenplay by Robert Towne has built up a reputation as among the finest scripts ever produced...
