Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions, Robert Evans Company
Chinatown
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Runtime:
130
Released:
1974
Rating:
7.918
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Robert Towne
FILM OVERVIEW
Chinatown
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.
DIRECTOR
Roman Polanski
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Robert Evans (Producer)
Richard Sylbert (Production Design)
Logan Frazee (Special Effects)
Ruby R. Levitt (Set Decoration)
Anthea Sylbert (Costume Design)
John C. Hammell (Music Editor)
W. Stewart Campbell (Art Direction)
John A. Alonzo (Director of Photography)
Roman Polanski (Director)
Jane Feinberg (Casting)
CAST MEMBERS
Jack Nicholson
Faye Dunaway
John Huston
Perry Lopez
John Hillerman
Diane Ladd
Roman Polanski
Roy Jenson
Richard Bakalyan
James Hong
MORE PRODUCTION
Sam O’Steen (Editor), Bob Cornett (Sound Editor), Mike Fenton (Casting), Jerry Goldsmith (Original Music Composer), Larry Jost (Sound Mixer), Hal Needham (Stunt Coordinator), Bernie Schwartz (Key Grip), Florence Williamson (Assistant Editor), C.O. Erickson (Unit Production Manager), Lee C. Harmon (Makeup Artist), Wayne Fitzgerald (Title Designer), Charles Grenzbach (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Bill MacSems (Property Master), Hawk Koch (Assistant Director), Michele Ader (Second Assistant Director), Susan Germaine (Hairstylist), Hank Edds (Makeup Artist), Hugh K. Gagnier (Camera Operator), Vivienne Walker (Hairstylist), Jean Merrick (Wardrobe Supervisor), Clint Althouse (Boom Operator), Richard Bruno (Wardrobe Supervisor), C.O. Erickson (Associate Producer), May Wale Brown (Script Supervisor), Earl Gilbert (Gaffer), Robert Towne (Writer)
MORE CAST
Bruce Glover, Joe Mantell, Roy Roberts, Noble Willingham, Rance Howard, Jesse Vint, Burt Young, Lee de Broux, Darrell Zwerling, Nandu Hinds, James O’Rear, Beulah Quo, Jerry Fujikawa, Belinda Palmer, Elliott Montgomery, George Justin, C.O. Erickson, Charles Knapp, Claudio MartÃnez, Federico Roberto, Allan Warnick, John Holland, Jim Burk, Denny Arnold, Elizabeth Harding, John Rogers, Cecil Elliott, Paul Jenkins, Bob Golden, Richard Warren, Fritzi Burr, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Fogel
