They ried to one-up each other about their messed-up and rough childhoods, with memories of their horrible and tragic pasts.Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.Potter: Well, what""s the trick, then?Lawrence:The trick, William Potter, is notmindingthat it hurts.Mr.Dryden (Claude Rains) of the Arab Bureau proposes o General Murray (Donald Wolfit) that the scholarly (educated at Oxfordshire), dedicated, knowledgeable (about Arabian affairs) but undisciplined Lawrence be assigned to special duty with a transfer o Arabia." He invites her for a drive later in the day to take her by the sea where she can sketch.He speaks of his home back in Cornwall - Manderley, and while she tries to divert his attention with small talk, her choice of subjects is even more troubling:de Winter (solemnly): To me, it""s just the place where I was born and I""ve lived in all my life." BackgroundChinatown(1974) is a superb, private eye mystery and modern-dayfilm noirthriller.Its original, award-winning screenplay by Robert Towne is a throwback hat pays homage to the best Hollywoodfilm noirsfrom the pens of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in the 30s and 40s.