The death of Hollis Mulwray is essentially Chinatown's inciting incident ... the dour attitude of the best movies of the 1970s. Katherine is a character who exists on the fringes of the story ...

It's 1937 Los Angeles. Specializing in cases of cheating spouses, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes is tailing Hollis Mulwray, whose wife suspects him of marital infidelity. Mulwray is the ...