Chinatown (1974)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s a dark look at a 1930s conspiracy concerning water rights in the desert city of Los Angeles. Sounds dry, right? Wrong! Watch Jack Nicholson in his prime play Detective Jake Gittes follow a trail of clues that leads him to the deep pockets of the rich. Faye Dunaway stars opposite as a dynamic and tragic figure. It’s not a cheerful end, but it’s one that will keep you thinking. Check out Bald Move’s coverage of The Conversation! Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige podcast today we're going to be talking about
0:05.3	1974's noir mystery about water rights in Los Angeles back in the late 1930s boy Boy, it sounds like dry material. Ha ha!
0:14.0	It's directed by Roman Polanski, the award-winning very talented, a now disgraced
0:21.0	director who's currently in exile in Europe for raping and
0:26.0	sodomizing a 13-year-old girl have to get that out of the way because it
0:29.4	definitely colored my opinion of the third act of this film,
0:32.8	written by Robert Town, who was brought on
0:37.6	to write the script to The Great Gatsby
0:41.0	for $150,000 and said, I can't do it. I can't do better than Fitzgerald.
0:45.0	How about I write this thing about Chinatown for 25 grand?
0:49.0	Sold said Robert Evans, who we recently really enjoyed Matthew Good's portrayal of him in The Offer.
0:57.0	That was on Paramount's. Oh, man, there's so many great The Offer Callbacks in this movie, or I guess the title credits of this movie.
1:05.4	It stars Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider, The Departed, Shining.
1:11.2	Those are just the movies that we've got a podcast for,
1:13.7	legendary actor Fay Dunaway,
1:16.0	star Bonnie and Clyde, the original Thomas Crown Affair,
1:20.0	Towering Inferno, and many others.
1:21.8	John Hillerman, who's mostly famous to me for being Higgins and Magnum P. I.
1:28.8	Okay, yeah. I was exactly right right
1:33.7	right
1:34.3	Bert young who was is Polly from the Rocky films and John Houston
1:39.4	legendary head of the Houston Hollywood family that includes Jack and Angelica. He also wrote and directed
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