Chinatown
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
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.
Crew and Cast
Roman PolanskiDirector · Man with Knife
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
Diane LaddIda Sessions
Richard BakalyanDetective Loach
Joe MantellLawrence Walsh
Roy JensonClaude Mulvihill
James HongEvelyn's Butler
Bruce GloverDuffyNandu HindsSophie
James O'RearLawyer
Beulah QuoMaidJerry FujikawaGardener
Belinda PalmerKatherine
Roy RobertsMayor Bagby
Noble WillinghamCouncilmanElliott MontgomeryCouncilman
Rance HowardIrate FarmerGeorge JustinBarber
C.O. EricksonCustomer
Fritzi BurrMulwray's Secreatry
Charles KnappMorticianClaudio MartínezBoy on Horseback
Freddie RobertoCross' Butler
Allan WarnickClerk
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 20 June 1974
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 7.9 / 10 (4,453 votes)
Production
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writers
- Robert Towne, Roman Polanski
- Studios
- Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions, Robert Evans Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
Box Office
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Revenue
- $30.0M
- Profit
- $24.0M
- Return
- 5.0×
- Collection
- The Jake Gittes Collection
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- Spanish, Cantonese, English