The Thin Man (1934)

Love this film! I watch it every Christmas!

My favorite character is Asta (the pooch).

I love William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora, but I LOVE David Niven and Maggie Smith as Dick and Dora in Murder by Death even better.

Absolutely adore this movie! But I’m blanking on Cesar Romero - I just watched Ocean’s Eleven and his Duke Santos is in my brain, I suppose.

Oh! Love this film!

Love the talk

Asta often appears in crossword puzzles.

It is on HBO Max. Watch tomorrow!

The "Thin Man " in the title is a reference to the murder victim and not Nick Charles.

Love the movie and the book. Dashiell Hammett was less hard boiled in it.The influence of Lillian Hellman possibly.

Me, too!

Minna Gombell has some good scenes as the greedy, shifty ex-wife of the murder victim. One scene where she jumps up, rushes into the adjacent room and wallops her character’s daughter, played by Maureen O’Sullivan, is pretty cool. Asta barks right on cue (dubbed in?) to punctuate the slap.

Was this pre-code? There are certainly a lot of naughty innuendos!

What’s that man doing in my drawers?

They said you were shot five times in the tabloids!

He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids!

Bump

All 5 films are great. Myrna Loy was stunning. Asta was small for a boy Fox Terrier but gorgeous..

A perfect series. Perfect.

I didn’t know that Dick Van Dyke directed movies.

And the minor young characters are all hotties. People really looked good in the 40ies.

They probably didn't look as good in the 40s as they did in this in 1934, though, R19.

Love this series.

Nora: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?

Nick: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.

[quote] but I LOVE David Niven and Maggie Smith as Dick and Dora in Murder by Death even better.

R19, the last three, with hot sailors and gangsters, were does in 1941, 1945, and 1947.

^ were done in 1941, 1945, and 1947.

I think this picture is a masterpiece. The writing is so smart, adult, and witty. By adult I mean the way that Nick and Nora talk to each other is amazingly mature and unique. Of course that is also due to the chemistry of its stars- Powell and Loy who may be the best screen couple of them all if only because they are always adults. I also think that this film- even with a murder- never takes itself seriously. It is easy to watch as if you were drinking a cocktail. That is due to the director and the pace. The next two movies in the series are equally as attractive.

The fifth one is great too (The Thin Man Goes Home). Excellent writing for a fifth installment. Nick giving up drinking and the father-son conflict are a nice twist, the characters are well developed. Of course, you can see from mile who is going to be the murderer. The opening scene in the Old Penn Station is wonderful. And Asta gets a LOT of screen time. Can't see enough of that pup.

the musical

The B-plot in the second picture with Asta's marital woes makes me laugh out loud every time I rewatch it.

My first exposure to the series was one New Year's Eve, when The Movie Channel showed a marathon of all six films. They rigged the start times so that the countdown to midnight in the second one aligned with the actual New Year arriving. Very clever.

It's one of the last of the pre-code movies.

What does "code" mean, R29? No more boozing and smoking on screen?

Full Movie on YouTube.

here you go R30

[quote]What does "code" mean, [R29]?

Or, if you'd rather read...

Great minds think alike R33. (I saw the show twice in high school). -- R32

I think a lot of the dialog, the quips anyway, came from the book.

Myrna and Dick were lovely. Loved Asta. My Gran had a great little wire fox terrier named Charlie and a huge ginger cat named Peter.

Later my mother explained that Gran always chose the same breed and that there had been two named Asta.

Loved that dog Charlie. Great with kids. Great swimmer.

"I married a girl, she's one in a million"

"I hear you married her because of her million"

"Well, that too"

😂

I have enormous affection for this film and for the series that followed, too.

As a kid, they shaped my taste for film, for humor, for fast-paced dialogue, for adult relationships (and for disparate adult relationships that work because of some fundamental under the surface and against expectation connection). Loy was brilliant, Powell perfect as well, the barbs balanced by respect and admiration and wit the outward vehicle that made it work. I found the films at the perfect point in life.

Some of the films are decidedly better than others, yet the worst of them is so much better one could expect.

I have a Fox Terrier girl that looks exactly like Asta (sans weenie). They are the best.

They are r40. Loyal protectors and brave beyond their size. And always up for play.