The Thin Man (Keepcase)
by W.S. Van Dyke
List Price:
Our Price: $4.14
You Save: $15.84 (79%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Maureen O'Sullivan, Minna Gombell, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, William PowellDirector: W.S. Van Dyke
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Editor: Robert Kern
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Writer: Albert Hackett
Writer: Dashiell Hammett
Writer: Frances Goodrich
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Thin Man (Keepcase)
Movie Review: Laughs a plenty
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one hour and thirty-three minutes long and came out in May 23, 1934. The Thin Man is actually the inventor that has gone missing not the detective. William Powell and Myrna Loy do a great job as Nick and Nora Charles, a wealthy married couple. Those two reprise their role for another five more Thin Man movies. The best part is at the end; where Nick Charles host a dinner party to unmask the murder. By the way he does not know who it is. It is his hope something unravels at the party. To quote Nora Charles: "It is the best dinner that she ever heard." If you are a Thin Man fan, then this movie is for you.
Summary of The Thin Man (Keepcase)
Nick and Nora Charles cordially invite you to bring your own alibi to The Thin Man, the jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each other highball for highball and clue for clue, they combined screwball romance with mystery. The resulting triumph nabbed four Academy AwardO nominations* (including Best Picture) and spawned five sequels. Credit W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke for recognizing that Powell and Loy were ideal together and for getting the studio's okay by promising to shoot this splendid adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel in three weeks. He took 12 days. They didn't call him "One-Take Woody" for nothing.The intoxicating chemistry and repartee between the oft-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles--America's favorite soused detectives--is fully 100-proof in the marvelously witty Thin Man movies. You simply won't find more delightful movie company than Nick and Nora. The title, of course, refers not to Nicky the dick, but to the mysteriously missing scientist he and his lovely partner set out to find. Powell and Loy deliver their sparkling dialog with giddy enthusiasm (and occasionally slurred speech) in this rapid-fire, three-martini suspense comedy directed by famously speedy W.S. Van Dyke and adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett. The success of The Thin Man spawned a litter of sequels, including After the Thin Man (featuring a young James Stewart), Another Thin Man (in which a baby is added to the Charles family), Shadow of the Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, and Song of the Thin Man. --Jim Emerson
Comedy DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Top 10 Movies of the 1930's
FreaksWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-08-10; DVD
Best price: $11.03
Price in other shops:
NinotchkaWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-09-06; DVD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition) 1939Release date: 2004-11-09; DVD
Best price: $29.99
Price in other shops:
The Great ZiegfeldWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-02-03; DVD
Best price: $9.22
Price in other shops:
Grand HotelWarner Brothers; Release date: 2008-01-08; DVD
Best price: $10.41
Price in other shops:
Mutiny on the BountyWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-02-03; DVD
Best price: $4.79
Price in other shops:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)Universal; Release date: 2007-02-06; DVD
Best price: $6.95
Price in other shops:
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonRelease date: 2000-02-22; DVD
Best price: $19.25
Price in other shops:
You Can't Take It with You (Remastered)Sony; Release date: 2008-12-09; DVD
Best price: $8.61
Price in other shops:
The Thin Man (Keepcase)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-08-02; DVD
Best price: $4.26
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Arsenic and Old LaceWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-08-29; DVD
Best price: $11.61
Price in other shops:
The Philadelphia StoryWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $5.51
Price in other shops:
CasablancaBOGART,HUMPHREY; Release date: 2000-02-15; DVD
Best price: $7.41
Price in other shops:
Song of the Thin ManWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $3.50
Price in other shops:
Another Thin ManWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
The Thin Man Goes HomeWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $1.48
Price in other shops:
It Happened One NightSony; Release date: 1999-12-28; DVD
Best price: $14.88
Price in other shops:
Shadow of the Thin ManWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
My Man Godfrey (Color + Black-and-White)Release date: 2008-07-01; DVD
Best price: $4.52
Price in other shops:
After the Thin ManWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops: