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William Powell, Myrna Loy, Skippy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Edward Brophy, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall

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I🖤Kraken

Perfect. I'm sewing my absinthe fairy costume for halloween. Cheers!

Erin Mileur

Caesar Romero is most famous for playing The Joker in the Adam West Batman tv show.

Erin Mileur

Maureen O’Sullivan starred in another movie from 1934 you might want to check out Tarzan and His Mate. Considered one of the best Tarzan movies it’s also famous for being a prime example of pre code cinema at its best.

Ben Gilbert

It was released the year after Prohibition ended.

Erin Mileur

The screenwriters of the Thin Man Albert Hackett and Francis Goodrich also wrote Its A Wonderful Life, Father of the Bride (1950) , and a movie you've watch for the channel Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Youtalkingtome

Ah! Makes sense with the staggering amount of drinking in the film.

Erin Mileur

The director W.S. Van Dyke shot this in 18 days he was known around MGM as "One Take Woody" in 1934 alone he made five movies. Manhattan Melodrama(The movie Dillinger saw the night he was killed and also with William Powell and Myrna Loy), Thin Man, Hideout (also starring Maureen O'Sullivan), Forsaking All Others, and Laughing Boy.

Youtalkingtome

No kidding, I have no idea what Caesar Romero looks like without Joker makeup.

HereBeMeghan

Will watch later, but yesssssss! Powell & Loy have amazing chemistry.

Ben Gilbert

Dashiel Hammet wrote only one thin man novel. The sequels were sequels to the movie and all featured Nick and Nora. Hammet also wrote Red Harvest which Akira Kurosawa filmed as Yojimbo and which was remade as A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood.

acidnova

And just to add, since J&K were wondering in the video, that William Powell and Myrna Loy play Nick and Nora in all of them.

acidnova

She's also Mia Farrow's mother!

Ben Gilbert

And the actual thin man (Wynant) was in none of them.

Lisa Klug

Yes, William Powell and Myrna Loy star in all the other "Thin Man" films. Fun fact, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy were crowned "King and Queen of Hollywood" in 1937 as a publicity stunt. They were, of course, HUGE stars at that time.

I🖤Kraken

Nick and Nora are pretty much the blueprint when it comes to partners in crime solving murder mysteries still today. William Powell was one of the strongest, funniest actors in Hollywood. My Man Godfrey is still a treasure. Glad you guys liked it.

JustALilTired

My favorite Myrna Loy film is The Best Years of Our Lives, highly recommend if you haven’t seen it

Just Lily

I hope you check out sequels sometime! Imo all are good, maybe second is best. Their dynamic as a married couple makes them all so fun and Asta of course! I watch all of them around New Years, such a comfort watch

Jontor11

This was so much fun! Myrna Loy and William Powell had such great chemistry together. And every time I see a Myrna Loy movie, I love it. She was such a great underrated actress that never got an Oscar nomination.

Steve Hutchinson

William Powell and Myrna Loy were so good on screen together and their incredible chemistry convinced movie studios to create 14 movies featuring the two of them, six of them were Thin Man movies. Also, there is a specific, and increasingly popular, cocktail glass called a Nick & Nora glass that mimics the ones seen in the movie that they serve martinis in. It was a more elegant alternative to the normal wide-mouthed martini glasses

Steve Hutchinson

and then "After the Thin Man" for New Year's Eve!

squix

Omg this is one of my top five favorite films. I'm so excited. I cannot expressed you how excited I am.

Youtalkingtome

I need to see more of them together. I love the dynamic as you said. It would be an amazing tv series if I'm being honest

squix

I'm glad you shared the experience with us. <3

David Adler

Gunga Din was my father's favorite movie, odd as that is, but I'm pretty sure he said this was the first movie that he remembered seeing in a theatre. At about 6 or 7 years old. On the Lower East Side of NYC.

Carl Wilson

There's a great running parody of the Thin Man series that's part of the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast series, called "Beyond Belief." Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster play not married high-society detectives but married high-society mediums, Frank and Sadie Doyle, who (reluctantly) solve mysteries involving ghosts, but would much rather be drinking martinis. The central jokes are their exaggeratedly accented repartee (the scripts frequently give Sadie long lists of items to recite just so we can hear the crazy way she pronounces them in her screwball mid-Atlantic accent), that they pour cocktails every 30 seconds, and that they (especially Frank) have almost no interest in anyone in the world other than each other. It's nearly as delightful as the original.

Carl Wilson

So true - you can even see the traces in No Murders in the Building, to name something done on the channel, but more obvious in neo-noirs like Moonlighting.

Carl Wilson

Hammett didn't write The Big Sleep, but he wrote The Maltese Falcon (and other Sam Spade stories), The Glass Key (which also had a couple of film adaptations) and more, including the screenplay stories for a couple of the Thin Man sequels. One of the great founding American crime/noir novelists along with Raymond Chandler, who did write The Big Sleep. EDIT: Ah, I see at the end you corrected that.

Carl Wilson

Btw, $50,000 in 1934 is more than $1.25-million today. I always feel compelled to look these things up when they arise in old movies and shows.

Ben Gilbert

David Niven and Maggie Smith play a parody of Nick and Nora in Neil Simon’s Murder By Death, Dick and Dora Charleston.

Lisa Klug

"After the Thin Man" is the next film in the series. It's a solid sequel, and it has James Stewart in it before he became a star.

Actuarial Lurker

$50K in 1934 is about $1.25 MILLION in 2026 purchasing power

Actuarial Lurker

Never saw this- was tied up the last 10 days so catching up on things,,,

Yankee Veg

There's also a Broadway musical called "Nick & Nora" from 1991. Written by the team who wrote Annie, and an A-List (for Broadway) cast including Barry Bostwick and Joanna Gleason, yet it only ran 9 performances. But I still listen to the cast recording now and then.

seth e.

1:03:41 it's like that John Mulaney bit where he's a pre-DNA evidence detective and it's like "we found a pool of blood at the scene" "hmm... gross. clean it up! now back to my hunch..."