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Nov 27, 1988 · Robert Evans was producing and planning to co-star with Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes's brother, but Mr. Towne ''felt on the basis of rehearsals that that wasn't working'' and the project collapsed.
Jul 1, 2016 · Robert Towne was a wonderful writer, but he had agreed to give up Greystoke for the extra money for Personal Best. Tarzan had been made 25 times or something as a film and television series, ...
Top 10 Robert Towne Films. 1. The Last Detail (1973) R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama. Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James. Votes: 27,645 | Gross: $3.19M.
Aug 8, 2013 · Screenwriter Robert Towne discusses his life and career. He is most notable for his Oscar-nominated screenplays of The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), ...
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Jul 1, 2016 · Writer Robert Towne so hated the finished 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes' that he put his dog’s name on the credits. As the new 'The Legend of Tarzan' opens, director Hugh ...
It was Robert Towne, one of the greatest script doctors that Hollywood has ever seen, that wrote the adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan’s 1970 novel called ‘The Last Detail.’. Towne, who would go on and only a year later pen what a lot of people call one of the best scripts ever created in Tinseltown—Chinatown, joined forces with filmmaker ...
Dec 2, 1988 · Tequila Sunrise: Directed by Robert Towne. With Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia. A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.
