Screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski redefined and set the bar for post-classic noir with Chinatown, a hypnotically dark investigation of political evil that also exploded the barely suppressed sexual perversity of earlier films into the open.

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Chinatown, Jack Nicholson, 1974. Photo courtesy of the Everett Collection.