Robert Towne's screenplays are handed out as gospel in Hollywood, and his lines and scenes are quoted and re-enacted from memory by countless fans. Collected here are three of his most famous and critically acclaimed scripts, including "Chinatown", for which he won an Academy Award in 1974.
Three screenplays that were made into popular and critically acclaimed films during the 1970s. "Chinatown" examines the creation of Los Angeles by following a private investigator who enters a world more corrupt and familiar than he could imagine; in "The Last Detail", two veteran sailors who escort a court-martialled recruit to prison; and "Shampoo" provides a depiction of the misadventures of a Beverly Hills hairdresser amid the mayhem of the late 1960s.