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Chinatown

Chinatown

A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Glover, Diane Ladd, Faye Dunaway, James Hong, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Roy Jenson, Dick Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Nandu Hinds, James O'Rear, Beulah Quo, Jerry Fujikawa, Belinda Palmer, Roy Roberts, Noble Willingham, Elliott Montgomery, Rance Howard, George Justin, Doc Erickson, Fritzi Burr
Director: Roman Polanski
Producer(s): Robert Evans