August 29, 2009
by Jim Cullison

A powerfully creepy, chilling moment towards the end of the 1974 masterpiece, "Chinatown"...

Nicholson's gumshoe character Jake Gittes confronts the affably evil robber baron Noah Cross...John Huston should have won an Oscar for his depiction of unflappably affable monstrosity incarnate...There's an exchange at 2:07 that could have come out of the New Testament or Dostoevsky, when Gittes and the audience realize that Noah Cross is Lucifer in a Panama hat...

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