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Title: Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| William Powell | ... | Nick Charles | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Nora Charles | |
| Barry Nelson | ... | Paul Clarke | |
| Donna Reed | ... | Molly Ford | |
| Sam Levene | ... | Police Lt. Abrams | |
| Alan Baxter | ... | 'Whitey' Barrow | |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Maj. Jason I. Sculley | |
| Richard Hall | ... | Nick Charles Jr. (as Dickie Hall) | |
| Stella Adler | ... | Claire Porter | |
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Loring Smith | ... | 'Link' Stephens |
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Joseph Anthony | ... | Fred Macy |
| Lou Lubin | ... | 'Rainbow' Benny Lumis | |
| Louise Beavers | ... | Stella | |
| Asta | ... | Asta | |
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Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the good life too much to get involved. However, he is subsequently approached by Major Scully to look into corruption and the role of organized crime in gambling. Others are killed but in the end, Nick gathers all of the suspects into a room and identifies the killer. Written by garykmcd
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sequel | fourth part | screwball comedy | nick and nora charles | murder |Taglines:
Hey everybody, my folks are back on the trail of the dog-gondest mystery you ever saw! They're Wackier Than Ever! See more »Parents Guide:
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The fourth of six "Thin Man" movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, filmed August 3-late August 1941. See more »Goofs
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November 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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Caught this again in a TCM triple feature of Thin Man movies. Even I'm not old enough to have seen these in the theater, but I saw them before as a youth when all of these movies were dumped by Hollywood onto the small screen in the Fifties and Sixties. They have aged very well. Myrna Loy is beautiful and wonderful as perhaps the prototypical smart Aleck and generally competent wife and partner. Her money obviously allows her husband William Powell to be the wise cracking, hard drinking playboy detective in the series start. She's a good influence and he turns into a more acceptable father type by the series end. The movies are all well written, directed and filled with plenty of great 'character actors'. Plot and character driven with nothing a modern audience would perceive as a 'special effect', they're also good detective stories. There's always the gathering of the suspects and the review of the clues at the end where in the less litigious '30s and '40s the killer always confesses. Highly recommended as light comedy and drama.