You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
$6,000,000
$30,000,000
June 20, 1974
Paramount Pictures, Long Road Productions
64 people
Jack Nicholson
J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
Acting
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
Acting
John Huston
Noah Cross
Directing
Perry Lopez
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
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Burt Young
Curly
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John Hillerman
Russ Yelburton
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Darrell Zwerling
Hollis I. Mulwray
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Roman Polanski
Man with Knife
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Diane Ladd
Ida Sessions
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Richard Bakalyan
Detective Loach
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Joe Mantell
Lawrence Walsh
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Roy Jenson
Claude Mulvihill
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