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Another Thin Man

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Another Thin Man	label	Another Thin Man
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Another Thin Man	comment	Another Thin Man is a 1939 mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke II. It is the third of six films in the "Thin Man" series that started with The Thin Man in 1934.In this one, Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) have returned to New York City with their infant son Nick Jr., whereupon they are summoned out to Long Island to meet with Col. MacFay, a stuffy old Brit (played by C. Aubrey Smith, patron saint of Hollywood's stuffy old Brits), who has been managing Nora's business interests. MacFay has become convinced that Phil Church, formerly an employee of his that went to prison for shady business dealings, is out to get him. His daughter Lois (Virginia Grey) is terrified for her father. Sure enough, the Colonel is murdered while Nick and Nora are staying at his mansion, and Nick Charles is drawn against his will into another murder mystery.Powell's return to movie-making after nearly dying from colon cancer, this was the eighth of fourteen films he and Loy appeared in together.Followed by Shadow of the Thin Man.
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Another Thin Man / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
Another Thin Man / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Vogel, one of Church's partners-in-crime and a particularly intimidating character, is rendered helpless when his glasses get knocked off.
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Another Thin Man / int_1b4ea159	type	The Alibi
Another Thin Man / int_1b4ea159	comment	The Alibi: Lois is with Nick and Nora when the Colonel's shot goes off, so she is believed to be innocent. It is revealed that with Phil's help she set up an elaborate timing mechanism in which she first killed her father, and then rigged the gun to go off five minutes later, after she'd left.
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Another Thin Man / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Another Thin Man / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Phil Church makes a thinly veiled threat against Nora and Nick Jr. Nick immediately stands up and slugs him, in one of the few times we see him with a completely serious look on his face.
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Another Thin Man / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Another Thin Man / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Not that it excuses the scheme he worked out, but as Nick himself points out, it's possible that Church really did have a legitimate beef with MacFay.
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Another Thin Man / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
Another Thin Man / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: At one point Vogel flashes a fake badge at Nick, who isn't fooled for a minute, but wisely pretends to believe it.
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Another Thin Man / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Another Thin Man / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Really sets in with this film. In the original, the "Thin Man" was a secondary character, a murder suspect. Calling the sequel After the Thin Man was logical enough. But the name "Thin Man" became associated with Nick Charles, and so this movie got called Another Thin Man for no particular reason.
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Another Thin Man / int_2e7e9bb3	type	Brought Home the Wrong Kid
Another Thin Man / int_2e7e9bb3	comment	Brought Home the Wrong Kid: Some of Nick's hoodlum friends decide to throw Little Nicky a first birthday party, and bring all their own kids. One of them has to rent one to attend. The villain of the story, after being revealed, attempts to get away by claiming to have kidnapped Nicky. Nora goes to check and sure enough, there is another kid in his place. Turns out the villain was bluffing; Nick's friend had grabbed the wrong kid when he left, and the villain happened to notice before everyone else. The second kid's enraged mother then returns with Nicky, clearing it up.
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Another Thin Man / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Another Thin Man / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Rather than indulge the police's attempts to put the blame on Nick, Nora zeroes in on the many girls Nick apparently had relationships with.
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Another Thin Man / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Another Thin Man / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Nick breaks out the snark after being stopped and questioned by one of MacFay's guards, even though they'd already been cleared.
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Another Thin Man / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Another Thin Man / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Church's female accomplice genuinely falls for him.
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Another Thin Man / int_4abd0b32	type	I'll Take Two Beers Too
Another Thin Man / int_4abd0b32	comment	I'll Take Two Beers Too: Nick and Nora are at a night club. Nick asks the waiter for a bourbon, then looks at his wife and says "uh, two bourbons." Nora says "The same."
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Another Thin Man / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Another Thin Man / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: McFayâ€™s small army of armed bodyguards departs the film after their boss is murdered and the story leaves his mansion.
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Another Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Another Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Nick, as usual. This time he's swilling drinks he finds in apartments that he and the police are searching.
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Another Thin Man / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Another Thin Man / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: "Asshole" might be stretching it a bit, but MacFay is a cantankerous demanding old coot that nobody is really broken up to see dead. Not even his daughter- she was the one who killed him. Heck, more people are genuinely upset when Church is murdered.
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Another Thin Man / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
Another Thin Man / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Lois is revealed as The Sociopath who killed her father because she wanted her inheritance so she could live the high life.
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Another Thin Man / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Another Thin Man / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Nick never wants to go detecting. He didn't even want to visit MacFay in the first place, much less solve the man's murder.
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Another Thin Man / int_9ab2d4a	type	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
Another Thin Man / int_9ab2d4a	comment	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: As seen when Church's Mook Dum-Dum throws one at Nick and it lodges in a mantel.
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Another Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Another Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: As with all Thin Man films. This one is a little different in that Nick has already figured out who did it. In the first two films he didn't know before the gathering and had to tease out a slip-up from the killer.
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Another Thin Man / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
Another Thin Man / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: As usual in the Thin Man series, a character that seemed perfectly innocent was the murderer. This time it's Lois, who killed her own father in order to get her inheritance. Hilariously, the formerly prim and proper Lois starts talking in a distinctly low-class voice after she's exposed.
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Another Thin Man / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
Another Thin Man / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Part of the "Thin Man" formula. In this one, Church is killed towards the end.
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Another Thin Man / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
Another Thin Man / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: Played straight, when Nick finds a matchbook from a nightclub in a suspect's coat, and follows the lead.
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Another Thin Man / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Another Thin Man / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Mrs. Bellam, the MacFay maid, tells Lois that she is her mother. It turns out that she was making it up, what with Lois having just inherited a lot of money.
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Another Thin Man / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Another Thin Man / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: MacFay's business partners and employees are oddly blase upon seeing his corpse, much to Nick's confusion.
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Another Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Another Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The secret ex-con Dorothy legs it immediately after the first murder, but didn't have anything to do with it.
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Another Thin Man / int_e3c2a543	type	You Don't Want to Catch This
Another Thin Man / int_e3c2a543	comment	You Don't Want to Catch This: Nora is surrounded by admirers and Nick wants to have a word in private with her.
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Another Thin Man / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Another Thin Man / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: Phil Church's confrontation with Nick ends with Church demanding money, then making an obvious threat, explaining that people he's dreamed of always die after his third dream of their death—and that he might start dreaming about Nora and their baby. This gets Nick really pissed and leads to the Papa Wolf moment (see above).
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Another Thin Man / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
Another Thin Man / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: The sight of a body lying in the road causes Nick to stop the car and jump out. The body then disappears. It turns out to be Dum-Dum, playing mind games.
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Another Thin Man / int_eed6d1c3	type	The Glasses Gotta Go
Another Thin Man / int_eed6d1c3	comment	The Glasses Gotta Go: Nick remarks of the Charles' bespectacled new secretary Dorothy that "You know, she wouldn't be a bad looker if she took her specs off." Sure enough, the lovely Ruth Hussey appears without her glasses later in the movie.
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Another Thin Man / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Another Thin Man / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Dum-Dum towards Church. He does not take the latter's death at all well.
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Another Thin Man / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Another Thin Man / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Played with. The cops pursue Nick as a suspect a few times, but eventually DA Van Slack realizes Nick's a better investigator than they are.
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Another Thin Man / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Another Thin Man / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: So...why is it called Another Thin Man?note See Title Drop in After the Thin Man
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Another Thin Man / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Another Thin Man / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: When Nora asks McFay if her father also cheated Church and she should feel obligated to repay him herself, McFay refuses to throw his old friend under the bus. He praises Nora's father and says that if Church was cheated, it was by him alone.
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Another Thin Man	hasFeature	Brought Home the Wrong Kid / int_33f62178
Another Thin Man	hasFeature	Going by the Matchbook / int_33f62178
Another Thin Man	hasFeature	I'll Take Two Beers Too / int_33f62178
Another Thin Man	hasFeature	The Alibi / int_33f62178
Another Thin Man	hasFeature	You Don't Want to Catch This / int_33f62178

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