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Another Thin Man (1939) -- An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in Nick and Nora (with new baby) to sort things out.

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Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Writers:
Dashiell Hammett (story)
Frances Goodrich (writer) ...
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Release Date:
17 November 1939 (USA) more
Tagline:
It's a blessed event more
Plot:
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in Nick and Nora (with new baby) to sort things out. full summary | full synopsis
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Whether it's solving a murder or sipping a Bacardi, Nick and Nora Charles are excellent company more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

William Powell ... Nick Charles

Myrna Loy ... Nora Charles
Virginia Grey ... Lois MacFay / Linda Mills

Otto Kruger ... Assistant District Attorney Van Slack
C. Aubrey Smith ... Colonel Burr MacFay
Ruth Hussey ... Dorothy Waters, Charles' Nanny
Nat Pendleton ... Lieutenant Guild
Patric Knowles ... Dudley Horn, Lois' Fiance
Tom Neal ... Freddie Coleman, MacFay's Secretary
Phyllis Gordon ... Mrs. Isabella Bellam, MacFay's Housekeeper
Sheldon Leonard ... Phil Church
Don Costello ... 'Diamond Back' Vogel
Harry Bellaver ... 'Creeps' Binder
William A. Poulsen ... Nicky Charles Jr.
Muriel Hutchison ... H. Culverton 'Smitty' Smith
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Return of the Thin Man (USA) (promotional title)
Nick joue et gagne (Belgium: French title) (France) [fr]
Dünner Mann, 3. Fall (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Gäckande skuggan kommer tillbaka (Sweden) [sv]
I epavlis tou mystiriou (Greece) [el]
Nick e Esposa, Detectives (Portugal) [pt]
Nick speelt en wint (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Noch ein dünner Mann (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Otra reunión de acusados (Spain) [es]
Pettävän varjon seikkailut (Finland) [fi]
Pettävän varjon uudet seikkailut (Finland) [fi]
Si riparla dell'uomo ombra (Italy) [it]
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
Spanish | English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #5826) | Sweden:15
Company:
Loew's more

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Trivia:
The third of six "Thin Man" movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Creeps first meets Nick and Nora, his suspenders disappear when he moves into the baby's room. more
Quotes:
Policeman with flashlight: We're going to have to shoot that mutt. We'll never find him like this.
Nick Charles: Wait a minute. He's not going to come running up to a lot of strange men with lights. What do you think he is? A moth?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home to (1991) (TV) more
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Whether it's solving a murder or sipping a Bacardi, Nick and Nora Charles are excellent company, 7 January 2007
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Author: Terrell-4 from San Antonio, Texas

When a movie begins with C. Aubrey Smith, that craggy paragon of old-fashioned values, beaten, shot and stabbed to death and then finishes with Shemp Howard, one of the Stooges, dandling a baby, you might believe you're in some odd alternate universe. In a way, you are, but the universe is the world of Nick and Nora Charles and the movie is Another Thin Man. It's the third film William Powell and Myrna Loy made about the debonaire amateur sleuth and his wealthy wife. If it doesn't quite reach the heights of witty sophistication of the first two, it'll do.

Nick and Nora, together with their new baby and Asta, are at the Long Island estate of the aging and imperious Burr MacFay (Smith), the partner of Nora's father before her father died. He's a financial wizard who still manages much of Nora's wealth...and he believes he's a man under a death threat. Within hours of their arrival, late at night, a fire starts in the ornate bath house, a fuse apparently blows taking out all the lights, the huge dog of the house is found killed...and MacFay is discovered shot, beaten and stabbed. Yet everyone seems to have an alibi. And what a bunch there is: MacFay's adopted daughter, Lois MacFay; Dudley Horn, the man she plans to marry who seems to love her money as much as he says he loves her; Freddie Coleman, MacFay's young, baby-faced secretary who is smitten with Lois; Mrs. Bellam, the curiously uncurious housekeeper; and Dorothy Waters, the nanny Nora engaged to help look after Nickie, Jr., who suddenly disappears. Those are the ones in the mansion. Lurking outside is a former employee of MacFay, Phil Church, who went to prison and now has schemes to cash in; his girl friend, his loyal goon and a slow-speaking piece of muscle who wears thick glasses. Nick and Nora head back to New York as soon as they can, but the mystery and the threats follow them. It takes a visit to the apartment of a woman no one seems to have met and some clever thinking before Nick brings everyone together in the Charles' hotel apartment where the ruthless murderer is exposed. Even that is complicated by Nickie, Jr.'s boithday party thrown by some of Nick's disreputable acquaintances and their kids.

In the meantime, we get to enjoy the imperturbable, affectionate and wittily ironic relationship between Nick and Nora, and delight in the expert playing of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Nick and Nora, especially Nick, enjoys his martinis and scotch, but this time around it's a little less obvious and a little more fun. "A Bacardi," says Nick to the waiter in a Latin nightclub. He glances over at Nora and adds, "Two Bacardis." Says Nora with a straight face to the waiter, "I'll have the same." The waiter brings four Bacardis. The mystery is complicated and, in my view, a little too much time is spend on it at the expense of time with the two of them. Still, the movie's extended nightclub scene shows just how witty, light and affectionate Powell and Loy could be when they had enough time to work their characters together. They made 14 movies together over 20 years, including the six in the Thin Man series. Individually or together, Powell and Loy were class acts.

And yes, Shemp Howard really is there. So's a chest-thumping Marjorie Main.

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