Robert Towne

…in, produced, and wrote with Robert Towne. In it, Beatty plays a womanizing hairdresser who finds it impossible to juggle all his lovers on the eve of Pres. Richard Nixon’s election in 1968. Even more successful was Heaven Can Wait (1978), a showcase vehicle for Beatty’s comedic talents. For this…

…Earth (1960) was written by Robert Towne, who would later become renowned as the writer of the neo-noir film Chinatown (1974); Corman also drafted Towne as an actor, but Towne disguised both contributions under the pseudonym Edward Wain.

Written by Robert Towne and earning him an Academy Award for best original screenplay, Chinatown is a fictionalized account of how ambitious businessmen and city officials in southern California acquired a water supply for the city of Los Angeles through political corruption, media manipulation, and violence, enriching…

…written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne; Robert Mitchum played a private eye who travels to Japan to rescue an American girl kidnapped by yakuza. Pollack had greater commercial success with Three Days of the Condor (1975). Redford starred as a CIA researcher who returns to his office to find…