1944 mystery-comedy, dir. Richard Thorpe, William Powell, Myrna Loy:
IMDb /
allmovie. There's nothing
like going back to your home town.
"According to an April 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item, wartime
liquor rationing prompted producer Everett Riskin to eliminate the
heavy drinking that had been an integral part of Nick and Nora's daily
life in previous The Thin Man films". Even so, Nick has a truly heroic
hip-flask here even if it is full of "cider" (en_GB apple juice);
and we get a young woman who's blatantly trying to vamp Nick, which
works in part because by this point in the series we're dead sure that
Nick has no interest in such floozies when he has Nora to come home
to.
On the other hand there's very little actual mystery here apart from
some of the details.
I talk about this film further on
Ribbon of Memes.
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