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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido
« Chinatown » by Roman Polanski and Robert Towne (a favorite motion picture on the thread) is set in 1937. Certainly in summer as there is a drought. At one moment, J. J. Gittes (Nicholson) passes a beach bar and we hear by the opened door a juke box playing « I Can't Get Started » by Bunny Berigan. Well, it's not just any jazz recording of the 1930's to set the right mood... it is the hit of the summer of 1937 (August precisely) !
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Good ear! I missed that.
I just contributed an incongruity to IMBD: when Gittes comes to after being beaten in the orange grove scene (at Walter Brennan's Triad Ranch out in Moorpark), one can see a 1974-era refrigerator through the window behind him as he sits up.