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Title: Ten stars. The movie that redefined the term, film noir
Review: Bad boy Roman Polanski filmed this gorgeous movie with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway set in Los Angeles during the 30s - it's about water rights for southern California, which is all about money, money, money. One gets the feeling while watching this film that it's patterned on maybe a Raymond Chandler/Sam Spade book. It's all about incest, infidelity, politics, treachery, lying, secrets - and no one who has seen it is likely to forget the scene in which Polanski himself appears for a brief and memorable sleazy cameo performance as a slimy scumball in cinema's best tradition.Watch it again. It heralded a new wave of really well done crime films from Hollywood.
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