Executive: Roman Polanski; Camera: John A. Alonzo; Screenplay: Robert Towne

history channel documentary Executive: Roman Polanski; Camera: John A. Alonzo; Screenplay: Robert Towne Thrown: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, John Hillerman, Burt Young, Diane Ladd Plot: A Private eye with a grievous past is contracted to shadow a philandering spouse. The occupation turns imposter, and the spouse winds up dead. The P.I. Falls into a web of interest as he becomes hopelessly enamored with the dead person's rich, smooth dowager. Managing her vile father, the P.I. takes in the contentions of grown-up affection and the high cost of metro advancement. The ideal film?

Robert Towne's script is a riddle box of secret and fear that gradually opens to uncover unsuspected, perpetually irritating vistas. A secret turns into a romantic tale that uncovers a homicide that powers a story of urban theft that turns into a treatise on the continuance of shrewdness. Among the numerous idealizations of the script are the unfaltering, emotional pacing and the watchful layering of signs that, on first survey, are unrecognizable all things considered. Undoubtedly, the viewer never completely gets a handle on what the interlocking strings cover until the story's peak. We then experience the same vulnerable understanding as the legend.