Robert Towne

Robert Towne

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934 – July 1, 2024) was an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams’s Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films.

Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988), and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust (2006).

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Creature from the Haunted Sea

Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

Comedy Horror
A scheming gangster hatches a clever scheme to eliminate his bungling associates, planning to frame an imaginary sea monster for their convenient disappearances. The criminals soon discover they're not dealing...
Score 3.7

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