The Thin Man (Keepcase)

The Thin Man (Keepcase)
by W.S. Van Dyke

The Thin Man (Keepcase)
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Actor: Maureen O'Sullivan, Minna Gombell, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, William Powell
Director: 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

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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

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