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Trailer—The Thin Man

The Thin Man

The film producers of this Thin Man Film never realized this first film starring William Powell, (Nick Charles) and Myrna Loy,(Nora Charles) would be such a great success and would go on and have six other Thin Man series. Nick & Nora Charles are newlyweds very much in love and are going to San Francisco for a honeymoon train ride. However, Nick is a detective and gets himself in a murder investigation in New York City and works with the police to solve a very mysterious story with murders and plenty of twists and turns right to the very end. This film is very fast paced and has lots of comedy with a fox terrier who steals lots of the scenes from the actors. Cesar Romero makes a brief appearance in this film along with Maureen O'Sullivan, (Dorothy Wynant) who was the wife of John Farrow a producer and was the mother of Mia Farrow. In my opinion this is the best of the Thin Man Films, and William Powell and Myrna Loy had a great magic with their performance as husband and wife. Enjoy.

Subtle without being boring, funny without being silly, "The Thin Man" shows the best that a movie can be. William Powell and Myrna Loy get the roles of a lifetime as the couple investigating a murder. I especially liked how she sassed him occasionally. And that dinner? One of the cleverest scenes in movie history. And of course I'd be remiss in ignoring their dog Asta. That pooch is a character unto himself (he occasionally appears as an answer in crosswords). I don't know if I'd call it the year's best movie, but it deserved its Oscar nods. If it's from a Dashiell Hammett work, you know that it's gonna be good. I now hope to see the rest of the series. The rest of the cast includes Maureen O'Sullivan (Mia Farrow's mom) and Cesar Romero (a few decades away from playing the Joker). All in all, a great movie in every way. You can't call yourself a cinephile until you've seen this at least once.