Jack Nicholson’s 'Chinatown' remains a 1974 classic, but its screenwriting was named the greatest in American movie history.

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This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was headlining at the annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Hollywood Boulevard.

Robert Towne, who wrote scripts for “Chinatown,” “Shampoo” and the first two Mission: Impossible films, pictured in 2006. (Peter Morris/The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media/Getty Images) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Towne originally envisioned a far more hopeful ending in which Evelyn Mulwray (Dunaway) survived and the villains faced ...

Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne, best known for writing the Oscar-winning “Chinatown” and other critically acclaimed classics, died at the age of 89 on Monday in his native Los Angeles.

Anytime a budding film fan begins to investigate the cinema of the '70s, chances are they'll eventually stumble upon Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." Considered by many to be one of the greatest films of ...

The movie business grew up in the pages of Variety. There is no more comprehensive chronicle of film history than Variety – hands down, no contest, case closed. This gallery backs up that bold ...