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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
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December 1944 (USA) moreUser Comments:
The Great American Dream moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Powell | ... | Nick Charles | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Nora Charles | |
| Lucile Watson | ... | Mrs. Charles | |
| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Laura Ronson (as Gloria De Haven) | |
| Anne Revere | ... | Crazy Mary | |
| Helen Vinson | ... | Helena Draque | |
| Harry Davenport | ... | Dr. Bertram Charles | |
| Leon Ames | ... | Edgar Draque | |
| Donald Meek | ... | Willie Crump | |
| Edward Brophy | ... | Brogan | |
| Lloyd Corrigan | ... | Dr. Bruce Clayworth | |
| Anita Sharp-Bolster | ... | Hilda (as Anita Bolster) | |
| Ralph Brooks | ... | Peter Berton | |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Police Chief MacGregor | |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | Willoughby |
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100 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #10301) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | UK:A (original rating)Fun Stuff
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Brophy is sitting with Nick's parents at the table, he is describing a card announcing births. During his description, he takes a bite of cake, but the dialog continues non stop, even though his mouth is obviously not mouthing the words. moreQuotes:
Nicholas 'Nick' Charles: A couple of weeks on this cider and I'll be a new man.Nora Charles: I sort of like the old one.
Nicholas 'Nick' Charles: Why, darling, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since the time I got my head caught in that cuspidor at the Waldorf.
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Featured in Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home to (1991) (TV) moreSoundtrack:
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All the Thin Man films are great to watch, but this is one with which I find a bit easier to identify. Riskin, the writer of this film and long time scriptwriter for Frank Capra, was also the guy who wrote "It Happened One Night" and "Meet John Doe". This New York City born writer's attraction to average Joe small town values over Cosmopolitan glitz and decadence obvious in those two films is plain to see here. This is probably the image a lot of successful urbanites had about moving to the suburbs after WW2.
This is sort of an odd bird among Thin Man films in a couple of ways. First of all, Nick is astonishingly sober for a change. Don't look for any of those scenes of Nick and Nora trying to drink each other the table at some New York nightclub in this one. In fact, the nightclubs and high rises are totally gone as Nick takes Nora the glamorous New York socialite back for a visit to Nick's hometown, which bears a fairly strong likeness to Andy Hardy's. Nick's father is a retired M.D. not unlike the ones in the Norman Rockwell paintings. He wanted Nick to follow in his footsteps as a small town doctor instead of becoming a big city policeman and this is the first time the two of them have gotten together in years. This father-son reconciliation is the explanation for Nick's sudden uncharacteristic attraction to a sober, healthy lifestyle.
Nick's father is actually fairly proud of Nick and keeps a scrapbook about all his adventures. The whole town knows about Nick Charles the famous Detective. I sort of see invisible images of G.I.s returning home from WW2 in a lot of this movie. Nick's celebrity as a tough, smart local boy who went off to bring gun toting gangsters to justice in the big city of aristocratic sophisticates and Broadway nights is not very far removed from how most Americans probably saw the guys who went off to liberate Paris and Europe in WW2. Nora fits into that picture as a sort of "Mrs. Miniver" figure of what American's admired about European sophication brought back home to meet the folks.
The homecoming hero vision of Nick peacefully turning into a happy coach potato in a post war suburbia however is not what we want to see. What everybody loves about the Thin Man films is their contrary to Hollywood stereotype revelation that life after marriage can actually be exciting. Nora decides to get Nick off the coach with an "I Love Lucy" sort of plot twist that spreads a rumor around town that Nick is secretly working on a detective case. The result of course is that all the various local characters with small town secrets to hide think he's after them and all the mystery murders and skeletons start coming out of the closet like we've all been waiting to see. Nick and Nora are such a fun couple, aren't they?