Chinatown (Centennial Collection)  enlarge Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Fritzi Burr, Cecil Elliott Studio: Paramount Category: DVD List Price: $16.99 Buy New: $11.99 as of 2/8/2012 03:32 CST details You Save: $5.00 (29%) In Stock New (27) Used (9) Collectible (1) from $11.98 Seller: ialmostfell4lola Sales Rank: 27,285 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: R (Restricted) Region: 1 Discs: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Running Time: 130 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 UPC: 097360729849 EAN: 0097360729849 ASIN: B002HK9HR8 Release Date: October 6, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Similar Items: The Deer Hunter DVD (Universal's 100th Anniversary) To Catch a Thief (The Centennial Collection) Harvey [DVD + Digital Copy] (Universal's 100th Anniversary) Harold and Maude A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition) Editorial Reviews: Description Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) 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 for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award®-winning script by Robert Towne, Chinatown captures a lost era in a masterfully woven movie that remains a timeless gem. Amazon.com Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J.J. Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mold, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole center of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted color cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley

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