Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- dying and death
- sea
- pedophilia
- rape
- mistake in person
- river
- chinatown
- barrage
- femme fatale
- conspiracy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jack Nicholson
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston
Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
- Burt Young — Curly
- John Hillerman — Russ Yelburton
- Darrell Zwerling — Hollis I. Mulwray
- Roman Polanski — Man with Knife
- Diane Ladd — Ida Sessions
- Richard Bakalyan — Detective Loach
- Joe Mantell — Lawrence Walsh
- Roy Jenson — Claude Mulvihill
- James Hong — Evelyn's Butler
- Bruce Glover — Duffy
- Nandu Hinds — Sophie
- Directed
- Roman Polanski
- Written
- Robert Towne
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 4,384 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions, Robert Evans Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1974 · You’re hereChinatown
Where it starts.
The Two Jakes
1990
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
