Chinatown and the Last Detail: Two Screenplays - Robert Towne

Robert Towne's screenplays are handed out as gospel in Hollywood, and his lines and scenes are quoted and re-enacted from memory by countless fans. Collected here are three of his most famous and critically acclaimed scripts, including Chinatown, for which he won an Academy Award in 1974. Presents the scripts for two films from the 1970s, one the story of a private detective in Los Angeles, and the other dealing with two Navy Shore Patrols escorting a prisoner.