Chinatown

Resource Information

The work Chinatown represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Chinatown

Statement of responsibility

a Paramount picture ; a Robert Evans production of a Roman Polanski film ; director of photography, John A. Alonzo ; written by Robert Towne ; produced by Robert Evans ; directed by Roman Polanski

Contributor

• Dunaway, Faye
• Evans, Robert, 1930-2019
• Glover, Bruce, 1932-
• Hillerman, John
• Huston, John, 1906-1987
• Jenson, Roy, 1935-
• Ladd, Diane
• Lopez, Perry
• Mantell, Joe, 1920-
• Nicholson, Jack
• Bakalyan, Richard, 1931-
• Polanski, Roman
• Alonzo, John A., 1934-2001
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Towne, Robert
• Young, Burt

Actor

• Nicholson, Jack
• Dunaway, Faye

Screenwriter

• Towne, Robert

Director

• Polanski, Roman

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• California -- Los Angeles
• Detective and mystery films
• Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Drama
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film noir
• Film noir
• Gangsters
• Gangsters -- Drama
• History
• Incest
• Incest -- Drama
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Drama
• Murder
• Murder -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Water rights
• Water rights -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama
• California -- Los Angeles | Chinatown

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film noir
• History
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

"Private eye Jake Gittes ... is hired by a stunning socialite ... to investigate her husband, who she suspects of cheating. But what Gittes thinks is a routine case of adultery quickly deteriorates into a tangle of deceit, corruption and treachery.""--Container

Awards note

Academy Award: Best Screenplay

Cataloging source

B@L

Credits note

Art director, W. Stewart Cambell ; set designers, Gabe Resh, Robert Resh ; special effects, Logan Frazee ; production designer, Richard Sylbert ; film editor, Sam O'Steen ; costume designer, Anthea Sylbert ; music, Jerry Goldsmith

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• Rated R
• Closed-captioned

Language note

• In English (5.1 surround), English (mono), or French, with optional English subtitles
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.C55

LC item number

C55 2003

PerformerNote

Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Jenson, Diane Ladd, Dick Bakalyan, John Huston

Target audience

general