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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, ...
Dec 8, 1997 · Chinatown and the Last Detail: Two Screenplays. Paperback – December 8, 1997. by Robert Towne (Author) 4.8 76 ratings. See all formats and editions. "Chinatown," generally regarded as the Great American Screenplay, follows a seedy private investigator, Jake Gittes, as he becomes involved in a case far more complicated than he ever imagined.
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Jun 20, 1974 · Chinatown: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez. A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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Dec 3, 1988 · THE HEADY SUNRISE OF ROBERT TOWNE. A BATTLE-SCARRED WRITER-DIRECTOR, SAVORING THE TASTE OF 'TEQUILA'. NEW YORK -- Movies are like wars. The guy who becomes an expert is the guy who. doesn't get ...
Jun 4, 2023 · 10. He’s a multi-millionaire. As you’d expect of a man who’s been instrumental in some of Hollywood’s greatest ever productions, Towne isn’t short of a dollar or two. According to ...
In Robert Towne's screenwriting career, The Godfather 's patio scene is one in a series of telling, bittersweet moments. Towne's is a dark, uncaring world, but one of the things that makes his vision so penetrating is that it is so complete. In the Towne universe, life may be mostly hopeless, but not completely so.
Nov 18, 2019 · EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has closed deals with Robert Towne and David Fincher to work up a pilot script for a prequel to the 1974 classic film Chinatown, sources tell Deadline.Towne won an Oscar for ...
