Another Thin Man is a 1939 American detective film directed by W. S. Van Dyke , the third of six in the Thin Man series. It again stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles and is based on Dashiell Hammett 's Continental Op story "The Farewell Murder". The Charles' son Nicky Jr. is introduced for the first time. The cast includes their terrier Asta , Virginia Grey , Otto Kruger , C. Aubrey Smith , Ruth Hussey , Nat Pendleton , Patric Knowles , Sheldon Leonard , Tom Neal , Phyllis Gordon and Marjorie Main . Shemp Howard appears in an uncredited role as Wacky.
9-586: The film was unable to be called Return of the Thin Man because The Thin Man from the original film was "completely dead" according to newspapers in 1939. It was followed by Shadow of the Thin Man (1941). Nick and Nora Charles are back in New York with Asta and their son Nicky Jr. They are invited by Colonel Burr MacFay to spend the weekend at his house on Long Island . MacFay, the former business partner of Nora's father and
18-401: A jockey accused of throwing a race is found shot to death, Police Lieutenant Abrams requests Nick's help. The trail leads to a gambling syndicate that operates out of a wrestling arena, a murdered reporter, and a pretty secretary whose boyfriend has been framed. Along the way, Nick and Nora must contend with a wild wrestling match, a dizzying day at a merry-go-round (accompanied by Nick, Jr.), and
27-439: A table-clearing restaurant brawl. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett , the husband and wife team who wrote the first three Thin Man scripts, refused to write another one. Goodrich said: "They press you awfully hard there…when they started talking about another Thin Man, we started throwing up and crying into our typewriters. We had the nervous breakdown together, [so] we said, "let's get out of here [and] we quit". The film
36-483: The administrator of her fortune, desperately wants Nick to put his well-known detective skills to work, as he has been receiving death threats from a shady character named Phil Church. When MacFay is killed, Church seems to be the obvious suspect, but Nick is skeptical, suspecting more than a simple murder. MacFay's housekeeper, his adopted daughter, and various hangers-on all may have had an interest in killing him. The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes show's
45-483: The characters of Nick and Nora Charles: Another Thin Man grossed a domestic and foreign total of $ 2,223,000: $ 1,523,000 from the U.S. and Canada and $ 700,000 elsewhere. It returned a profit of $ 394,000. Shadow of the Thin Man Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 American murder mystery comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles . It
54-462: The film score to be 85% based on reviews from 20 professional critics. According to Frank S. Nugent , "this third of the trademarked Thin Men takes its murders as jauntily as ever, confirms our impression that matrimony need not be too serious a business, and provides as light an entertainment as any holiday-amusement seeker is likely to find". Another Thin Man is the third of six feature films based on
63-620: The same year, as Greenway Park . On the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge , Nick and Nora Charles get "pulled over" for speeding on the upper deck of the bridge. Shadow of the Thin Man was eagerly welcomed, coming two years after the previous outing and hitting theaters just two weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor . It would be three years before Loy would make another film ( The Thin Man Goes Home in 1945) as she left Hollywood for New York, where she volunteered for
72-531: Was based on a story by Harry Kurnitz, not Dashiell Hammett, as the previous films had been, with the script written by Harry Kurnitz and Irving Brecher. After difficulties with the previous films, author Dashiell Hammett was uninvolved in the production of Shadow or the two subsequent films in the series. On 22 June 1941, MGM filmed exteriors for Shadow of the Thin Man in Berkeley, California , with Golden Gate Fields racetrack, which first opened on 1 February
81-408: Was produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as the fourth in the series of six The Thin Man films. In this film their son Nick Jr. (Dickie Hall) is old enough to figure in the comic subplot. Other cast members include Donna Reed and Barry Nelson . This was one of three films in which Stella Adler appeared. Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing day at a racetrack, but when
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