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The Thin
Man (1934)
In director W.S. Van Dyke's comedy-mystery - the first
film of the very popular series:
- the wisecracking, sophisticated, witty, and clever
exchanges between detective couple Nick (William Powell) and Nora
Charles (Myrna Loy)
- the scene of Nora's noisy and sprawling entrance into
a restaurant (a pratfall typical of screwball comedies) laden with
Christmas packages and dragged by their dog Asta
- the sequence in their bedroom in which Nick punched
out his wife to protect her from a gunman's line of fire
- Nick's scene with a pop/airgun shooting balloons off
their Christmas tree
- the dinner party scene in which Nick invited all
the suspects and step-by-step analyzed all the crimes and solved
the mystery
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