" Immediately after Vince learned that there would be national-television exposure, he signed on, and began dreaming of owning a convertible!During the show""s broadcast, Vince was introduced by Hunk as a ""short-timer"" who sang ""real pretty.In the hallway by the elevator, the arrogant Gittes has an opportunity to bait and speak insulting words to Claude Mulvihill (Roy Jenson), the city""s water department enforcer, whose own personal water supply has been shut off:How""d you find out about it? You don""t drink it." 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.He was delayed leaving work by almost an hour due to a fussy, indecisive customer who couldn""t make up her mind, and left with only a sample scrap.