The Thin Man Collection [DVD]

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For those of my generation (these episodes ran during my junior high school years), there is doubtless a dear nostalgia for the time; but there is a smooth sophistication here which I am noting many much younger people are beginning to re-appreciate. According to Loy, the actors were not allowed to interact between takes with the dog Skippy; trainers felt it would break his concentration. Harrison Carroll of The Los Angeles Herald-Express wrote that it was "one of the cleverest adaptations of a popular novel that Hollywood has ever turned out". The director had decided to shoot the scene without Powell knowing it so that he would be as relaxed and natural as possible. Some awful turkeys show up both in single releases and in compilations, as fine productions are overlooked.

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In 'After the Thin Man' (1936), back in San Francisco after solving their last case in New York, Nick and Nora find another case. The rapid fire dialogue is about the best heard since talkies, and it is delivered by Powell and Miss Loy to perfection". Finally, Nick and Nora, along with Dorothy and her new husband, Tommy, celebrate as they ride a luxury train back to California. Although she had great compliments for Powell's charm and wit, Maureen O'Sullivan (who played the daughter of Wynant) later said she did not enjoy making the picture because her part was so small and the production was so rushed.

In the 1976 comedy spoof movie Murder by Death, the characters of Nick and Nora Charles became Dick and Dora Charleston, played by David Niven and Maggie Smith. Nick and his wealthy wife, Nora, live in San Francisco but are visiting New York City for Christmas, staying in a glamorous apartment-like suite at the Hotel Normandie.

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the character Nicky Flippers, a frog detective voiced by David Ogden Stiers, was based on Nick Charles. Nick deduces that the real culprit murdered Clyde once he discovered that the killer had been embezzling from him, and then the culprit murdered his own accomplice, Julia Wolf, because she knew about Clyde's murder, and after that, he murdered Nunheim since he had witnessed Julia's murder and was blackmailing him.

com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646). For Powell's first scene in the film, Van Dyke told him to take the cocktail shaker, go to the bar and just walk through the scene while the crew checked lights and sound.