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Chinatown [Blu-ray] [1974] [Region Free]

Jack Nicholson , Faye Dunaway , Roman Polanski    Suitable for 15 years and over   Blu-ray
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
  • Directors: Roman Polanski
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Castillian, Italian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 May 2012
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003BIFR74
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,514 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency--and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is JJ Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mould, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole centre of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted colour cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. --Anne Hurley, Amazon.com

Product Description

In a legendary performance, three-time Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson* stars as private eye Jake Gittes.

Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes' sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray's wife (Academy Award® winner Faye Dunaway), a stunning socialite with secrets of her own.

As a determined Gittes delves deeper, he soon realises that even the City of Angels has a dark side.

Director Roman Polanski's Chinatown has evolved from an atmospheric film noir mystery into a modern-day classic, with Robert Towne's Academy Award®-winning script unforgettably and brilliantly capturing a lost era of deceit, corruption and treachery.


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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars English Blu Ray - DO NOT BUY!!!!! 30 May 2012
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
The film is an absolute masterpiece. Paramount howeber have seen fit to throw us a sub-standard product. None of the impressive extras from the American blu ray have come over and the picture quality while in HD is average. Grab the region free import instead. I will be sending my copy back immediately. Hugely disapointing.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Massive disappointment! 29 May 2012
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Appalling Blu-ray completely lacking the extras available on the US BD. No excuses for the way this classic has been treated. Just vote with your wallets and avoid at all costs!
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Forget it, Jake - it's Paramount. 29 May 2012
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Pre-ordered and hugely anticipated Blu Ray disc of Chinatown finally arrived. This is my favourite movie. An outstanding collision of screenplay, direction, cinematography, acting and Jerry Goldsmith's brilliant score. What a joy to finally have it in pristine Blu Ray glory with all the extras, a restored print, a high def sound-track.

Forget it. No extras. Same old murky print. Volume on the soundtrack even appears to be limited.

Five stars for Chinatown the movie.

No stars for Paramount the cheapskates.

Shameful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best
This review is from: Chinatown (Amazon Instant Video)
The 1970's it is said was one of the more prolific film decades. Read more
Published 5 days ago by prisrob
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
I was looking for this film for a long time. Very good purchase. Matched perfectly my expectations. Arrived on time
Published 4 months ago by Maria Cristina Alves da Silveira Ribeiro
3.0 out of 5 stars chinatown
I chose this film because I had not seen it but was talking about it recently. The old photography of it makes it odd but enjoyable.I have recommended it to work mates.
Published 4 months ago by pauline macey
4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect film, great quality but poor extras
Emotionally nagging is the phrase one review used and that may be the best way of describing Chinatown. Read more
Published 4 months ago by MLindsay89
5.0 out of 5 stars Region free and feature packed
A wonderful slow burner of a film with a final scene which leaves you breathless at the devastating catharsis just witnessed. It is a film to savour and watch undisturbed.
Published 4 months ago by S. Turner
4.0 out of 5 stars Chinatown DVD
The Chinatown DVD was bought for someone else, they missed it on the TV - and was told what a brilliant film it was. Very Happy.
Published 4 months ago by Maddie
2.0 out of 5 stars Overrated
Definitely one of the most overrated films of the 70's. I'm really mystified at all the plaudits this film gets. It's not even one of Jack Nicholson's best films. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hayze
1.0 out of 5 stars UK consumers ripped off again
Chinatown was released in 1974. Has any subsequent film surpassed it? I struggle to think of any. Either way, this is sublime film-making, the peak of the 'movie brats' era. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. J. D. Carvill
3.0 out of 5 stars Dreary and plodding
Chinatown - no. Only in the sense that Chinatown is used as a metaphor for all that is corrupt, seedy, underhand and amoral. Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Ahmad
5.0 out of 5 stars Jack!
A dark, sombre movie that keeps you on your toes throughout, Jack at his nonchalant, domineering best. A real cliffhanger
Published 5 months ago by logosg
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