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Another Thin Man (1939)

Another Thin Man poster
Directed by
W. S. Van Dyke
Genre
comedy film, crime film, mystery film, comedy thriller
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 140 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Nick and Nora Charles return for another mystery while juggling their new baby and a boisterous house party. A wealthy man is murdered at a Long Island estate, and the witty couple must sort through a crowd of suspects to find the killer.

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What happens

Another Thin Man is a 1939 American comedy mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and the third installment in the Thin Man film series. It 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 Nickie Jr. is introduced for the first time. The cast also features their terrier Asta, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton (reprising his role from 1934's The Thin Man), Patric Knowles, and Tom Neal. Shemp Howard, later of the Three Stooges, appears in an uncredited role as Wacky. The film was unable to be titled Return of the Thin Man because the actual "Thin Man" (often confused with the detective Nick Charles) was "completely dead", being in fact the victim from the first film. It was followed by Shadow of the Thin Man (1941). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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