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After the Thin Man

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After the Thin Man	label	After the Thin Man
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After the Thin Man	comment	After the Thin Man is a 1936 mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It is a sequel to the 1934 smash hit The Thin Man, and the second of an eventual six films in the "Thin Man" series.Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) come back home to San Francisco after the events of the first movie, just in time to see in the new year. Nick and Nora want to rest and relax, but they are invited to visit Nora's family—much to Nick's displeasure as Nora's family can't stand him. While they are visiting, Nora's cousin Selma, on the verge of hysterics, begs them to find her husband Robert, who has been missing for days. They do so, only to find that Robert is a complete scumbag who has a mistress, and is also a Gold Digger who married Selma for her money. Robert accepts a $25,000 payment from Selma's ex-boyfriend David in order to go away forever, but shortly after taking the money, and moments after the stroke of midnight on New Year's, he is shot to death. Nick and Nora then find themselves in another mystery when suspicion falls on Selma and Nora prevails on her husband to find out who really did it.After the Thin Man is made more interesting by the presence of a 28-year-old James Stewart, billed third, playing David the hopeful ex-boyfriend. Stewart had made his film debut just one year before and this was one of his first big parts. He would play supporting roles for MGM for the next couple of years before hitting it big in 1938 with You Can't Take It With You. The role he plays here is a good example of Early-Installment Weirdness.Followed three years later by Another Thin Man.
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After the Thin Man / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
After the Thin Man / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A retroactive example. As Nick and Nora get off the train, a reporter asks Nick if he's got "another Thin Man case" going.
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After the Thin Man / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
After the Thin Man / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Not that Nick really needs an excuse to drink, but he pounds one back after finding out he'll have to make an appearance at Aunt Katherine's mansion to meet his in-laws.
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After the Thin Man / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
After the Thin Man / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: A suspect claims he didn't shoot a murder victim...before it was revealed he was shot. Subverted in that this particular suspect didn't do it, though he was far from innocent.
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After the Thin Man / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
After the Thin Man / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: It is certainly fun to see Jimmy Stewart deliver David's wild-eyed, unhinged motive rant.
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After the Thin Man / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
After the Thin Man / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Begins and ends with Nick and Nora on the train.
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After the Thin Man / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
After the Thin Man / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Asta the dog comes home to the missus to see she's got a litter of puppies...one of which is too darkly colored to be his. He spies a nearby black Scottish Terrier sneaking through a hole under the fence and drives off the intruder angrily, then fills in the hole.
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After the Thin Man / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
After the Thin Man / int_6d89ad1a	comment	The Ophelia: Selma has some aspects of this; She's a beautiful, tragic, upper class woman who's in the care of a psychologist and seems to just barely be holding onto her wits throughout the movie, and that's before she's arrested for murder (and immediately faints). She didn't do it, but you can bet discovering that her old boyfriend is a psychotic killer who wanted to see her go mad and hang hasn't done any favors to her mental state. And between her disloyal (and dead) husband, domineering mother, and quack doctor, it's no wonder she's under a lot of stress.
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After the Thin Man / int_73d9c25f	type	Quack Doctor
After the Thin Man / int_73d9c25f	comment	Quack Doctor: Dr. Kammer is a quack psychologist who doesn't seem to have much in the way of skills other than giving injections and testifying in court that clients are insane. His stunned comment after the murderer is dragged away raving: "My god. I was right. He really was crazy."
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After the Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
After the Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: As usual, Nick never stops drinking.
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After the Thin Man / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
After the Thin Man / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: A scene where Nick inspects a suspect's apartment, only to get in a shootout with Dancer, runs for six minutes without a word of dialogue.
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After the Thin Man / int_82ab88c5	type	Percussive Pickpocket
After the Thin Man / int_82ab88c5	comment	Percussive Pickpocket: A pickpocket named "Fingers" bumps into Nora at the train station and steals her purse. But he recognizes Nick, so when Nick introduces Nora as his wife, Fingers slips the purse back.
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After the Thin Man / int_833d49b2	type	Broken-Window Warning
After the Thin Man / int_833d49b2	comment	Broken-Window Warning: A stone with a note attached flies through the Charles' kitchen window. Hilarity Ensues when their dog Asta grabs the note in his jaws and is pursued through the house.
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After the Thin Man / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
After the Thin Man / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Nora's aunt Katherine who can't stand Nick, always pronouncing his name in a hyper-correct way as "Ni-cho-las".
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After the Thin Man / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
After the Thin Man / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: The murder that kicks off the takes place on New Year's, moments after the stroke of midnight.
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After the Thin Man / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
After the Thin Man / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: As noted, nobody sheds many tears over Robert's death, but murder is murder.
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After the Thin Man / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
After the Thin Man / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Thick fog on the streets of San Francisco as Robert is murdered.
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After the Thin Man / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
After the Thin Man / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Nick gets dragged into another murder investigation when all he wants to do is live a life of luxury.
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After the Thin Man / int_967fb42a	type	Prolonged Prologue
After the Thin Man / int_967fb42a	comment	Prolonged Prologue: The murder that forms the central mystery doesn't happen until the movie is half-over. The first half of the movie is taken up by an extended comic scene in which Nick and Nora wander into a party in their own house, then a gag scene with Mr. and Mrs. Asta, then the long sequence at Aunt Katherine's that mixes plot-establishing with broad comedy, and then the scene where Nick and Nora find Robert at the club which establishes Robert as a scumbag.
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After the Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
After the Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: Nick gathers all the suspects together to reveal the murderer, as he did in every film.
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After the Thin Man / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
After the Thin Man / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Aunt Katherine's incredibly ancient butler Henry, who nearly falls over when Nick hands him his coat.
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After the Thin Man / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
After the Thin Man / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: As was the case throughout the series, the film shows a bunch of suspects and then reveals as the murderer the one character who was helpful and friendly and seemed above suspicion.
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After the Thin Man / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
After the Thin Man / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: David, tagging along after Selma, hoping to pick up the pieces after her relationship with Robert inevitably blows up...except he is revealed at the end to not be this at all.
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After the Thin Man / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
After the Thin Man / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: Picking up from the end of the first film, this one starts with "California, Here I Come" playing over a shot of the train Nick and Nora are heading back to Californa on.
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After the Thin Man / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
After the Thin Man / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: The Thin Man ends with Nick and Nora boarding a train to San Francisco after Nick solves the mystery. This one starts with Nick and Nora aboard that same train.
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After the Thin Man / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
After the Thin Man / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: In this film like all the other Thin Man films, there's another murder in the second half to keep the plot moving.
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After the Thin Man / int_b9e87cf3	type	Knitting Pregnancy Announcement
After the Thin Man / int_b9e87cf3	comment	Knitting Pregnancy Announcement: Nick has just solved a very complicated mystery, but has yet to deduce that his wife Nora is expecting. Until he realizes that she is knitting a baby's sock.
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After the Thin Man / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
After the Thin Man / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Selma, whose husband is a lout that needs killing and whose supportive would-be boyfriend turns out to be a crazy murderer.
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After the Thin Man / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
After the Thin Man / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Part of the villain's Motive Rant. "I've got six bullets in this gun. One for her, one for myself. One for myself, and the rest for anyone who tries to stop me."
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After the Thin Man / int_d2e4289b	type	Calling Me a Logarithm
After the Thin Man / int_d2e4289b	comment	Calling Me a Logarithm: One clue is that a note was written with hard words spelled correctly and easy words spelled wrong, in bad imitation of an illiterate person.
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After the Thin Man / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
After the Thin Man / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: The murderer throws away the gun of someone he wants to frame. (Testing the gun would prove the suspect's innocence.)
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After the Thin Man / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
After the Thin Man / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Can there be any other reason Selma picked Robert over David?
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After the Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
After the Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Lum Kee skulks around acting suspicious, but proves to have no involvement in any of the murders.
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After the Thin Man / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
After the Thin Man / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: One of the red herrings includes Lum Kee, the nightclub owner. Lum Kee's brother was a Tong who got sent to prison by Nick, and Lum Kee himself apparently has connections with the Chinese underworld.
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After the Thin Man / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
After the Thin Man / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Asta's mate, Mrs. Asta, apparently was unfaithful while Asta was away. See Chocolate Baby below.
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After the Thin Man / int_e77a1e07	type	New Year's Resolution
After the Thin Man / int_e77a1e07	comment	New Year's Resolution:
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After the Thin Man / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
After the Thin Man / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Aunt Katherine seems to do this to everyone she dislikes, as she repeatedly calls Nick "Nicolas", despite him preferring to be called "Nick", and refers to Lieutenant Abrams as both "Mr. Abraham" and "Lieutenant Abrahamson" because she doesn't want him in her house.
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After the Thin Man / int_f2ced7b8	type	Surprise Party
After the Thin Man / int_f2ced7b8	comment	Surprise Party: Nick and Nora arrive home to find a surprise party for them—that is already well underway, with a group of revelers who have no idea who they are.
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After the Thin Man / int_f5e4b663	type	Walk This Way
After the Thin Man / int_f5e4b663	comment	Walk This Way: Nick does this gag when Henry the ancient butler leads him into the house.
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After the Thin Man / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
After the Thin Man / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: As the story begins, Robert has stopped pretending and is looking to get as much as he can from Selma.
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After the Thin Man / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
After the Thin Man / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: A subtle instance that doubles as Foreshadowing. Nora doesn't officially announce she's pregnant until the very end of the movie, but beforehand makes odd requests like scrambled eggs at three o'clock in the morning. As she says to Nick: "And you call yourself a detective..."
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After the Thin Man / int_ffaa675b	type	Asian Speekee Engrish
After the Thin Man / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: One of the suspects is Lum Kee, a very unfortunate Chinese stereotype character. (At least in a small mercy he's played by an actual Chinese guy.) He is the owner of the nightclub where Robert was last seen and where Robert's girlfriend worked. There may be a subtle bit of characterization here in that Lum Kee's "you bet you" talk goes away when he's talking to his fellow hoodlums, rather than Nick Charles.
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