![]() ![]() And wouldn’t you know, it’s always the person you least suspect. They’re all wrapped up in a mystery only Nick can solve, while Nora cooks up her own theories.Īfter a few bits of gunplay and detective work (often with Asta uncovering a key clue), it all unwinds when Nick gathers all the suspects in the same room and eliminates them one by one until he unmasks the killer. There’s usually a femme fatale, a pretty ingenue in a fix, a perplexed policeman, and a cast of Damon Runyonesque characters from the criminal demimonde. ![]() ![]() Nick and Nora are in some glamorous spot, having lots of cocktails when they somehow find themselves in the middle of a murder or two, mixed up with Nick’s earthy pals. The plots all follow the same basic formula as the first movie, "The Thin Man," based on a clever Dashiell Hammett story. Nora is a classy society dame, while Nick's work puts him in touch with the world of cops and crooks, touts, safecrackers, and ex-cons, and they're never far from a shaker of dry martinis. The pair made 14 movies together but are best known for these six "The Thin Man" movies. Few Hollywood franchises were as successful as "The Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as sophisticated, witty detectives Nick and Nora Charles, solving crimes with a martini in one hand and their little wire-haired fox terrier Asta’s leash in the other. ![]()
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