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“Forget it, Jake it’s Chinatown!” The most memorable sign-off ever, right? Wrong. Roman Polanski’s peerless gumshoe mystery actually ends with a testy cop ordering rubberneckers to “get off the street”. Fortunately that’s one of the few unremarkable lines in Robert Towne’s script, a magnificent dissection of corruption boasting career-best turns …

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