“Chinatown” premiered on June 20, ... John Huston had forged a four-decade film career as a writer, director, producer and sometimes actor; his first directorial effort ...

John Huston and Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown” Paramount “When David and I first started talking we agreed we wouldn’t try to replicate Noah Cross,” Towne says about the villain of the ...

Chinatown , released 50 years ago today, shone a bleak light on the machinations of money and power—a theme that still animates U.S. politics. Skip to ... Noah Cross (played by John Huston), ...

Throughout Roman Polanski's noir classic Chinatown, the villainous tyrant Noah Cross (John Huston) pronounces protagonist Jake Gittes' (Jack Nicholson) surname incorrectly, basically ignoring the ...

Robert Towne, who has died aged 89, was a celebrated Hollywood scriptwriter best known for his 1974 film Chinatown, ... (Faye Dunaway) and her tycoon father Noah Cross (John Huston). ...

Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that's partly because of a potent story based on the real history of California's so-called "water wars".

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