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Song of the Thin Man (1947) 16 November 2023

1947 mystery-comedy, dir. Edward Buzzell, William Powell, Myrna Loy: IMDb / allmovie. That devil music, it's no good!

Well, all right, these are the whitest jazz men I've seen outside English pub bands—but that's sadly plausible for the era. And insanity doesn't work even a little bit like that. But there's some solid acting, and an early role for Gloria Grahame, doing that thing that she did so well. (And Dean Stockwell appears as Nick Jr!)

This isn't explicitly a conclusion to the series, but it has the good stuff, the snappy dialogue and the contrast between light-hearted Nick and Nora and the deadly serious criminals, and… well, usually either a series cuts off suddenly while it's still worth watching, or it gets dragged out forever being less and less fun until even the old fans come to hate it. I'm glad this one took the former option.

I talk about this film further on Ribbon of Memes.

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