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Chinatown (1974)

Chinatown was inspired by the California Water Waters, which was a series of disputes over southern California water at the turn of the 1900s. Writer Robert Towne claimed that Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) "taught me to look at the place where I was born, and convinced me to write about it."

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