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Overview
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Writers:
Albert Hackett (screenplay) and
Frances Goodrich (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 May 1934 (USA) more
Tagline:
A laugh tops every thrilling moment!
Plot:
Comedy-mystery featuring Nick and Nora Charles: a former detective and his rich, playful wife. They solve a murder case mostly for the fun of it. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win more
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(9 articles)
What are Your Favorite Winter Holiday Themed Movies?
(From Rope Of Silicon. 26 October 2009, 2:39 AM, PDT)
Back to the 1930s for Bones
(From TVfanatic. 21 October 2009, 1:19 PM, PDT)
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Sleuthing Among The Rich and Famous more (97 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | William Powell | ... | Nick |
 | Myrna Loy | ... | Nora |
 | Maureen O'Sullivan | ... | Dorothy |
 | Nat Pendleton | ... | Guild |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mimi |
| Porter Hall | ... | MacCaulay |
| Henry Wadsworth | ... | Tommy |
| William Henry | ... | Gilbert |
| Harold Huber | ... | Nunheim |
 | Cesar Romero | ... | Chris |
| Natalie Moorhead | ... | Julia Wolf |
| Edward Brophy | ... | Morelli |
| Edward Ellis | ... | Wynant |
| Cyril Thornton | ... | Tanner |
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Runtime:
91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | Netherlands:AL (DVD rating) | Canada:PG (video rating) | South Korea:12 (2003) | Sweden:11 (DVD rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:(Banned) (1934-1938) | Finland:K-16 (1938) | USA:Approved (PCA #1304-R: 26 August 1935) | Germany:6 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:U
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Maureen O'Sullivan appears intoxicated in her entrance to the dinner party at the end of the movie. She falls against the door frame prior to entering the room and her speech is slurred and stilted. In subsequent scenes at the dinner itself she is fine. more
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Continuity: At Nick and Nora's apartment, Nora folds her arms in front of her. In the next shot, she's holding her hands behind her back. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Tanner:
Your daughter's here, Mr. Wynant. Mr. Wynant! Mr. Wynant!
Clyde Wynant, the thin man:
Haven't you got any more sense than to shout at me like that?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: I Accuse My Parents (#6.7)" (1993) more
Soundtrack:
O Christmas Tree more
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Though five sequel films were made from this very popular original there are still to this day people who will answer the question who is the Thin Man with William Powell.
The answer of course is Edward Ellis, an inventor whose disappearance gets a recently retired detective named Nick Charles to solving a case where three murders are committed almost in spite of himself. Ellis is a tall and very skinny man, hence the title.
One thing I always liked about The Thin Man. The formula never varied, MGM didn't believe in tampering with success. It was always that Nick and Nora Charles get dragged almost kicking and screaming into some homicide. Nick is always four jumps ahead of the police be it Nat Pendleton or Sam Levene. Two or three other murders are committed before the solution is arrived at. And always the gathering of the suspects at the end when Nick lays it all out for them, the cops and we the audience. And of course Nora whose help except for moral support is somewhat dubious.
One thing that was cut down on was Nick's alcoholic consumption. The Thin Man just beat it under the wire with The Code and as the Charles had a baby in later stories, it wouldn't do to have one of the father role models in America be a complete drunk all the time.
I always liked the fact that in all The Thin Man stories the murderer is never obvious. A twist in the plot could have made any one of the suspects the guilty party.
The Thin Man was nominated for Best Picture and Oscar nominations were given out to William Powell, director Woody Van Dyke, and screenwriters Goodrich and Hackett for adapting Dashiell Hammett's original story. Unfortunately The Thin Man ran up against It Happened One Night and got skunked out of all the top prizes.
But amazingly enough Myrna Loy was not nominated for Best Actress. In fact the woman NEVER got an Oscar nomination. If there was every a case where the chemistry between the leads made a film, The Thin Man was it. How you could nominate Powell and not Loy is beyond me.
But that's Hollywood for you. The Thin Man is a fresh today as it was over 70 years ago.