Chinatown could not be a place you could actually ... "Days of Thunder" and the first two "Mission: Impossible" movies. It also happened with Towne's sophomore directorial feature "Tequila Sunrise ...
Ironically, the madness of 'Chinatown' put Faye Dunaway in good stead for the role of Joan Crawford in the 1981 shocking movie 'Mommie Dearest'.
In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. His current target is Hollis Mulwray, high-profile chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department ...
The line -- "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." -- is uttered by Lawrence Walsh (Joe Mantell), the partner of Jack Nicholson's sardonic private eye Jack Gittes, after Jake's love interest Evelyn ...