Chinatown - written by Robert Towne (won an Oscar for best writing, original screenplay)
Noah Cross: 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
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Last line of the film is classic: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells?
I couldnt pick a fave but i rewatched brick the other day and was impressed with the lingo the writer had created for the hardboiled teens. Big chinatown influence on that movie.