] Bergman was very effective in the role of the vulnerable young wife who becomes helpless as she experiences a debilitating nervous breakdown and near insanity while living with her mysterious husband in the home where her beloved aunt was murdered...I""d do what I""d done again.Killed a guy in a dance hall.We was drunk - he got a knife in me and I laid him out with a shovel.Knocked his head plum to squash...He had a knife in me, that""s why they only give me seven years.I got out in four - paroled.They leisurely walk together to the Joad family tenant farm.Along the way, Casy describes Pa Joad""s behavior during a baptizing.To imitate Pa Joad""s "run at that bush," the eccentric preacher howls and jumps a fence:Last time I seen him was at a baptizin"".The camera slowly freezes on the radio and dissolves o an early morning rooster""s crowing with the same shot of the window as George departs - the radio plays static.The name of the character Hollis Mulwray was a clever anagram for "Mulholland".The evil character of Noah Cross was a reference to the Biblical Noah (and the torrential flood that devastated mankind)." 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.