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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I wanted to but couldn't!

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A classic romp in so many ways. The cast, writing and performances are fresh and funny as the day they were filmed. Some of the dialogue is a reflection of the era, but will not be lost on 21st century ears. No political correctness here, everyone drinks too much and has fun doing it. "Nora: How do you feel? Nick: Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober." Young or old film buffs will enjoy the entire Thin Man series, but I think this and the second in the series are the best.

William Powell and Myrna Loy, will I ever get bored of watching these two? I wish I could possess the wit and charm of William Powell, someone who can still remain classy and have a way with words even when inebriated (which is often). I wish I could be married to a woman like Myrna Loy. For Nick and Nora Charles being married is just one crazy murder mystery solving adventure after another! With so many movies in which marriage is a hindrance, here are two people who reveal in being married without the worry of children (for now anyway). I find myself jealous at these two for their existence of seemingly never-ending fun. It's no wonder audiences of the 1930's where attracted to these escapist fantasies in their droves. Sometimes a man and a woman with impeccable chemistry is all you need for cinematic greatness.The Thin Man gave birth to Myrna Loy receiving the label "the perfect wife". Loy disliked this label but it's not hard to see why see got such a reputation. She seems too perfect to exist like she was conjured out of the mindsets of what heavenly actress should be. It's not all just Nick and Nora though, there is an entertaining supporting cast including the Wynet family, the classic screwball comedy troupe of the odd ball family. It's not My Man Godfrey levels but they are a bunch of nuts, with my favourite being the wannabe criminologist who is the polar opposite of the suave Nick Charles. The Thin Man is a fairly inexpensive feature but shows how you can do so much with so little. The sequels had larger budgets and never captured the feeling or the intimacy of the first film. The scene in which Nick and his dog Asta go sleuthing by themselves in an inventor's laboratory is almost entirely silent, features gorgeous noir cinematography and has me breathless watching the whole thing; setting the stage for the shady noir world of the 1940's. I've seen The Thin Man several times and I still don't understand the plot yet that doesn't make the movie any less engaging. Rather is makes me want to watch the film again in hopes that I eventually will understand the plot.

Former detective Nick Charles (William Powell) has come out of retirement to investigate the case of a missing inventor whose wife has just been found murdered. Nick is reluctant to get back into the sleuthing business but his wife Nora (Myrna Loy), a wealthy heiress, thinks it's all very exciting and pushes him to solve the case. The first of a wonderful series of comedy-mysteries. Possibly the best. Based off of Dashiell Hammett's last novel. Nick and Nora would become the trademark roles for Powell and Loy. This first entry in the series is excellent and one of the finest detective films made in the '30s. The wonderful comedy is a great plus. Nice support from Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Edward Ellis, Cesar Romero, and many more. Just a fantastic cast with a great script and fine direction from Woody "One Take" Van Dyke. The Thin Man series was also one of the best at the wrap-up segments where all the suspects are gathered together at the end as the detective explains what happened (to them and to us, the viewers). These parts of detective movies are always either exciting and fun or boring and talky. This series always managed to be fun.

This is the movie that made up the starting point for one of the most famous (even though not very long compared to others: it consists of only 6 movies), and most popular even today crime movie series: "The Thin Man". Shot originally as a B movie, with a comparable modest budget for MGM standards, and with the two protagonists for the first time working together, it was an immediate smash hit - and marked the beginning for one of the most beloved screen couples; and certainly THE most beloved of the non-married in real life ones! William Powell was already an 'old hand' at crime, coming freshly from his "Philo Vance" series success; while Myrna Loy had been playing more in melodramas up to then - but director W.S. van Dyke, who personally chose her for the role, was convinced that she had a GREAT sense of humor as well. And how right he was...Nick Charles is a former 'tough guy' style private dick from New York (although there's not too much left of the original character that Dashiell Hammett had created in the novel which had just been released a few months earlier), who 'married money' (as he himself ironically points out from time to time, much to his wife's chagrin) in the shape of Nora, the daughter of a rich businessman, who nevertheless is a perfect match for him: she loves adventure and crime and doesn't get scared easily - and most of all, she drinks almost as much as Nick himself... The movie was released just a little while after the end of the Prohibition, and so of course everybody could relish in excessive drinking parties even in an MGM movie, where they had always been rather careful about this subject as long as alcohol had been prohibited (in the novel, the story is set during the Prohibition days, and so Nick and Nora are of course often found in speakeasies, ignoring the law...); and the easing off of the horrible social effects of the Depression also shows in a generally carefree, almost childishly funny party atmosphere throughout the movie - even in the middle of a dark, mysterious murder case...Clyde Wynant, an eccentric inventor, has vanished all of a sudden; while his secretary and former lover Julia, who had stolen the bonds he had intended to give to his daughter for her wedding, is found dead in her apartment. So, of course, everybody's searching for Wynant, who is described as the 'thin man with white hair' (hence the title), as the murderer (soon double murderer, when a slimy little informer gets bumped off as well) - and of course, there's a whole bunch of suspects to choose from: Wynant's ex-wife, who also happened to find Julia's body, his lawyer, Julia's boyfriend, the informer's girl, the ex-wife's new lover... And Nick and Nora, the certainly most unusual (on-screen) married couple of the time, drink and party themselves through the case, accompanied by their terrier Asta, and more than once getting in real danger themselves - until Nick, with his cleverness and talent for improvisation, finally reveals the culprit at a hilariously funny and at the same time extremely suspenseful 'murder solving dinner', with all the suspects sitting at the same table! The enormous success of the movie, which so elegantly combines light comedy with tough murders, led to a whole series of films which always used the title of the original one (although it doesn't actually refer to Nick Charles, like many people believe today) - and are until today, and with FULL justification, ranking among the most popular and beloved by a wide audience classic crime comedies of all times!