Towne, Robert | American writer and screenwriter | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• Oscar for best original screenplay, 1974
• screenplay of “The Yakuza”
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    In Sydney Pollack: Film directing
    …written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne; Robert Mitchum played a private eye who travels to Japan to rescue an American girl kidnapped by yakuza. Pollack had greater commercial success with Three Days of the Condor (1975). Redford starred as a CIA researcher who returns to his office to find…
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association with

• Beatty
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    In Warren Beatty
    …in, produced, and wrote with Robert Towne. In it, Beatty plays a womanizing hairdresser who finds it impossible to juggle all his lovers on the eve of Pres. Richard Nixon’s election in 1968. Even more successful was Heaven Can Wait (1978), a showcase vehicle for Beatty’s comedic talents. For this…
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• Corman
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    In Roger Corman: The Little Shop of Horrors
    …Earth (1960) was written by Robert Towne, who would later become renowned as the writer of the neo-noir film Chinatown (1974); Corman also drafted Towne as an actor, but Towne disguised both contributions under the pseudonym Edward Wain.
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