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The Thin Man

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The Thin Man	comment	The Thin Man is a 1934 (and thus, pre-Code) mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the Dashiell Hammett novel of the same name. William Powell and Myrna Loy star as Nick and Nora Charles, a pair of hard-drinking, wisecracking, socializing types—except that Nick is also famous for being a tough detective, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't quite stop people (most especially including Nora) from expecting him to solve crimes.Almost every modern male/female crimesolving duo owes something to this film—everything from McMillan & Wife to Hart to Hart, from Remington Steele to Moonlighting, from Castle to Warehouse 13 is, in part, a riff on a theme established in The Thin Man.Despite Powell and Loy hamming it up to the best of their considerable acting ability, many a scene is stolen by the Charleses' Fox Terrier Asta.The Thin Man was nominated for four Academy Awards, including nominations for picture, director, and lead actor, but didn't win any. Powell and Loy's chemistry and charisma were obvious, and several sequels followed:
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The Thin Man / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Thin Man / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: When Nick and Nora jump into a cab to follow someone, and before either of them can say it, the driver asks, "Follow That Car?". Nora remarks "Movie fan".
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The Thin Man / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Thin Man / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Nick. Nora claims that if he ever got a pat on the back from his father, he'd burst a vest-button. It literally happens in the final scene.
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The Thin Man / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Thin Man / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the first film, Clyde Wynant is referred to as "the thin man." In the second one, as Nick and Nora get off the train, reporters crowd around them and wonder if Nick is going to get "another Thin Man case."
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The Thin Man / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Thin Man / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: The motivation for the killer is that Nick had been this to him for their whole lives. He's taken away screaming about how he won't let Nick beat him again.
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The Thin Man / int_19f527df	type	Blowing Smoke Rings
The Thin Man / int_19f527df	comment	Blowing Smoke Rings: In one scene, William Powell can be seen blowing smoke rings◊ as the policeman interrogates Nunnheim.
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The Thin Man / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
The Thin Man / int_20314beb	comment	Cousin Oliver: Making Nora pregnant at the end of After the Thin Man was a good gag but backfired to some extent in later installments, forcing Nick and Nora into a domesticity that didn't fit well with their urbane, martini-swilling style. In The Thin Man Goes Home Nick Jr. isn't included on a visit to his grandparents (supposedly he's at school).
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The Thin Man / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Thin Man / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The opening scene reveals that Wynant has a bad shin that alerts him to changes in the weather. This is plot-relevant later when the skeleton underneath Wynant's shop is found to have a piece of shrapnel from World War I in the shin. Said scene also mentions that Wynant wears a bracelet made of the various metals he smelts in his factory, which is also plot-relevant when it's discovered on the body of Julia Wolf.
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The Thin Man / int_266e4fc7	type	The Perry Mason Method
The Thin Man / int_266e4fc7	comment	The Perry Mason Method: How Nick elicits The Reveal in all six films.
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The Thin Man / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Thin Man / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Nick has been persuaded to investigate Wynant's apparent fake suicide, he walks down the street while discussing the case with a policeman, accompanied by Nora and Asta. We only see them from the waist up, so we only see Asta's leash as it suddenly jerks in the direction of first a fire hydrant, then a lamppost.
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The Thin Man / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Thin Man / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: In the original, the "thin man" was not Nick Charles, but a character named Clyde Wynant, a missing person who was suspected of murder. However, moviegoers started associating Nick Charles with the "thin man," and by The Thin Man Goes Home, which involved Nick going back to his hometown, the movie series did too.
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The Thin Man / int_2bcd8194	type	Loyal Animal Companion
The Thin Man / int_2bcd8194	comment	Loyal Animal Companion: Asta. (Though "loyal" is not the same thing as "brave".)
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The Thin Man / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
The Thin Man / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Dorothy, who is sweet and good-hearted.
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The Thin Man / int_2ceee1dc	type	Head-Turning Beauty
The Thin Man / int_2ceee1dc	comment	Head-Turning Beauty: No fewer than three party guests swoop in on Nick's front door when Dorothy Wynant arrives. Nick ushers her away, saying that they have to "get away from the wolves."
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The Thin Man / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Thin Man / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Nick fails to recognize lovely Dorothy Wynant when he sees her at a club, and when she says who she is, remarks that he hasn't seen her since she was a child.
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The Thin Man / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
The Thin Man / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: The doctor who murdered two people whips out the Japanese rifle that was displayed prominently on the table, pointing it at Nick. Oops, "I forgot to tell you, they removed the firing pin from that gun."
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The Thin Man / int_3266ed59	type	Incredibly Obvious Tail
The Thin Man / int_3266ed59	comment	Incredibly Obvious Tail: Nora sets off to tail one of Nick's hoodlum friends, whom she incorrectly believes is the bad guy. Her idea of tailing a suspect is to walk directly behind him at a distance of about 15 feet. Hilariously, a bad guy decides to tail Nora in the exact same way, resulting in a little three-person parade through town.
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The Thin Man / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
The Thin Man / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: Nora has to deal with this after trying to match Nick martini for martini. Nick, being Nick, is unaffected.
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The Thin Man / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Thin Man / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: This exchange when Nick, Clinker and Asta are in a restaurant and the waitress comes up with their order:
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The Thin Man / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Thin Man / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Being a wealthy socialite, Nora wears quite a few furs. In The Thin Man Nick gives her one for Christmas.
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The Thin Man / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Thin Man / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: The villains usually got one, although the murderer in the first film didn't. Unsurprisingly, the best one is from James Stewart in After, as he explains how he was driven mad by jealousy after his girlfriend threw him over for her sleazy husband.
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The Thin Man / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Thin Man / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Out of the six movies in the series, this is the only one to set up the mystery before introducing Nick and Nora, who don't appear until the ten and twelve minute marks repsectively. It's also the only movie to lack a credit for Asta.
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The Thin Man / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Thin Man / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Nick in the books is described as short and overweight, so of course they cast the tall, svelte and dashing William Powell.
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The Thin Man / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Thin Man / int_58970413	comment	Coincidental Broadcast: A previously quiet radio burst forth with news of the Julia Wolf murder before Nick turns it off.
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The Thin Man / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Thin Man / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police are pretty much always dunces. Nat Pendleton, who plays the detective in charge of the investigation in the first film, made a career out of playing amiable lummoxes.
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The Thin Man / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Thin Man / int_627264e0	comment	There are several moments of Nick teasing his wife (much to Nora's annoyance) that he only married her for her wealth. This is always followed by an awkward silence and Nora's death glare.
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The Thin Man / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Thin Man / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: When the cops start getting into Nora's dresser while searching Nick and Nora's apartment. Fortunately, Nick sprays his drink back into the glass instead of all over himself.
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The Thin Man / int_6595b784	type	Animal Reaction Shot
The Thin Man / int_6595b784	comment	Animal Reaction Shot: Asta.
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The Thin Man / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Thin Man / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The movies always ended with these.
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The Thin Man / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Thin Man / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Nora starts one intentionally so she has an excuse to have two suspects arrested.
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The Thin Man / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
The Thin Man / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Part of Nora's job, as Nick does most of the actual detecting. Nick lampshades this by calling her "Dr. Watson" at one point in the original, after she refers to him as "Sherlock" earlier in the scene.
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The Thin Man / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
The Thin Man / int_73dd919c	comment	Genteel Interbellum Setting: New York version.
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The Thin Man / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
The Thin Man / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert: Nunnheim is trying to call someone when a hand comes in from out of frame and hangs the phone up.
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The Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Thin Man / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Nick and Nora are both extremely hard drinkers, which is a recurring gag throughout the series. Nick quits by movie five, but circumstances make him look like he's off the wagon.
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The Thin Man / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Thin Man / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In his first appearance, Nick is shown giving the bartenders at the club instructions on how to shake a martini. After he's done, the waiter puts the martini on his tray, whereupon Nick scoops it up and drinks it. Then Nora enters the club along with Asta. They engage in some witty banter, then, after finding out that Nick is on his sixth martini, Nora demands six martinis to catch up with him. The tone is firmly established.
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The Thin Man / int_860b267a	type	Kinky Spanking
The Thin Man / int_860b267a	comment	Kinky Spanking: Nick, after making comments about woodsheds and razor strops, puts Nora over his knee and spanks her with a rolled up newspaper. It's a bit of Fanservice.
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The Thin Man / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
The Thin Man / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Nick and Nora never look for crimes to solve. In fact, Nick repeatedly insists that he is retired from detective work. He and Nora always stumble across murders while on vacation or simply socializing. Lampshaded in Shadow by Lt. Abrams: "Funny, I meet you two at all my homicides." (In the first movie, Nick explains that he retired from detective work to manage his wife's enormous fortune.)
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The Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
The Thin Man / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: All six films.
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The Thin Man / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
The Thin Man / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: The ridiculously sexy Gloria Grahame plays a nightclub singer. She looks great, but the dubbing isn't very good.
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The Thin Man / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Thin Man / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Early on in each sequel except Song, someone rattles off the cases Nick solved in each previous film.
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The Thin Man / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Thin Man / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: The murderer killed his boss when the boss found out that he was embezzling. A minor suspect was doing it too. He gets caught by Nick breaking in to fix up the books so he isn't accused of the murder.
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The Thin Man / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
The Thin Man / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: Averted, for the only time in the series. If this film had followed the same formula as the previous five, the murderer probably would have been the cheerful, goofy musician played by Keenan Wynn. Instead, oddly enough, one of the murder suspects turns out to actually be the murderer.
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The Thin Man / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
The Thin Man / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: For the first two films at least, as the "thin man" is a supporting character in the first film. Averted for the last two films of the series; see Artifact Title above.
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The Thin Man / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Thin Man / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Nick and Nora are adored by their servants, and many of Nick's friends are criminals he's arrested. In the first film, several of Nick's hoodlum friends come to his Christmas party.
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The Thin Man / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Thin Man / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The film ends with "California, Here I Come" playing over a long shot of the train as Nick and Nora head back to Californa.
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The Thin Man / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Thin Man / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Nick and Nora, but especially Nora, who has a lot of the best lines.
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The Thin Man / int_b1b83670	type	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married
The Thin Man / int_b1b83670	comment	Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Chris Jorgensen's first wife shows up at the Summation Gathering and reveals that she is still married to Chris. This means that Mimi never legally remarried and thus is still an heir to Wynant's fortune, which liberates her to reveal the murderer's identity.
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The Thin Man / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
The Thin Man / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: A trademark of the series. In this one Nunnheim, a prime suspect in the Julia Wolf murder, himself gets gunned down a little more than halfway through. Later, Nick finds a third body, but it's been dead for a few months by the time he discovers it.
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The Thin Man / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
The Thin Man / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: Except for that one time on the train, in the first film. The were in a hotel room, in their defense.
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The Thin Man / int_bbeea2fe	type	Percussive Prevention
The Thin Man / int_bbeea2fe	comment	Percussive Prevention: Nick punches Nora to get her out of the way of a gunshot.
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The Thin Man / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Thin Man / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: For a matter of scale - a man dropping dead on Nick's father's doorstep leads to Nick aiding the war effort by breaking up a group smuggling top-secret military blueprints to foreign nations.
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The Thin Man / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Thin Man / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The Charles couple is one of the great screen examples of the trope.
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The Thin Man / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: In the backstory, Nick was a working-class detective while Nora was a wealthy socialite. Most prominently featured in After, where Nick's discomfort with Nora's family is a recurring theme. There are several moments of Nick teasing his wife (much to Nora's annoyance) that he only married her for her wealth. This is always followed by an awkward silence and Nora's death glare.
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The Thin Man / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Thin Man / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Nora hands Nick a tray of empty martini glasses, and Nick quips, "Grandma, what large glasses you have." At the Christmas party, Nick describes his guests as "just a few Friends, Romans, Countrymen..." At the end of the movie Nick bids Dorothy and her new husband goodbye with "and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
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The Thin Man / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: "You move and that dog'll tear you to pieces!" Cut to Asta scrambling under the couch.
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The Thin Man / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: A fair number of characters seem to be skirting close to this, but Gilbert Wynant goes all the way.
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The Thin Man / int_cd0637d2	type	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
The Thin Man / int_cd0637d2	comment	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Leads to a Spinning Paper montage about the hunt for Wynant.
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The Thin Man / int_d8a7295a	type	What If the Baby Is Like Me
The Thin Man / int_d8a7295a	comment	What If the Baby Is Like Me: Dorothy Wynant comes to the conclusion that she should dump her fiancé when it looks like her father may be an insane murderer, and worries that it runs in the family. The case isn't helped by her Nightmare Fetishist/Cloud Cuckoo Lander brother, who rather than comfort her theorizes that it is a recessive trait, and that therefore there is only a one in four chance of her child being insane. So she should limit herself to three children. Then he changes his mind because "The first one might be the bad one."
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The Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Thin Man / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The Charles family housekeeper acts rather furtive, but it turns out she's a shy fan of Nick's who just wants to get his autograph.
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The Thin Man / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Thin Man / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Nora often calls Nick "Nicky." Nick varies between calling Nora "baby" and "sugar." Once Nicky Jr. comes along he mostly calls her "Mommy."
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The Thin Man / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Thin Man / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Nick and Nora want to be, but people around them just keep on dying.
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The Thin Man / int_f0f69743	type	Drugs Are Good
The Thin Man / int_f0f69743	comment	Drugs Are Good: Nick drinks and drinks and drinks, and it does nothing but make him more witty and charming.
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The Thin Man / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: When one of the suspects pulls a gun on Nick and Nora in their bedroom, Nick socks Nora in the jaw to knock her off her bed and out of the line of fire. Nora, for her part, isn't too annoyed about the punch itself because she knew there was no malice behind it, but she is annoyed that it meant she couldn't watch Nick take the gunman down.
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The Thin Man / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Just about all of Nick's friends that he introduces to Nora are ex-cons that he put away.
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