Finally, Nick and Nora, along with Dorothy and her new husband, Tommy, celebrate as they ride a luxury train back to California. Harrison Carroll of The Los Angeles Herald-Express wrote that it was "one of the cleverest adaptations of a popular novel that Hollywood has ever turned out". She convinces Nick to take the case, with the assistance of his socialite wife, who is eager to see him in action. We also sell a wide range of refurbished Mobile Phones and Tech from major brands like Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and much more.

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Powell complained that he had too many lines to learn and could barely decipher the complicated plot he was unraveling. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake (Philip Reed), its unpopular, spiteful band-leader.the character Nicky Flippers, a frog detective voiced by David Ogden Stiers, was based on Nick Charles.

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Nick and his wealthy wife, Nora, live in San Francisco but are visiting New York City for Christmas, staying in a glamorous apartment-like suite at the Hotel Normandie. Ebert praised William Powell's performance in particular, stating that Powell "is to dialogue as Fred Astaire is to dance. The scene of Nick shooting the ornaments off the tree was added after Powell playfully picked up an air gun and started shooting ornaments the art department was putting up. According to Loy, the actors were not allowed to interact between takes with the dog Skippy; trainers felt it would break his concentration. Film Daily raved: "The screen seldom presents a more thoroughly interesting piece of entertainment than this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's popular novel.

The eponymous "Thin Man" is not Nick Charles, but the man Charles is initially hired to find – Clyde Wynant (part way through the film, Charles describes Wynant as a "thin man with white hair"). Charles goes on to explain to Vance that his latest case revolves around a "tall, thin man" (referring to Clyde Wynant's character), just before clips of the film are shown.

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They assume that the remains belong to the "Fat Man"—a long-ago enemy of Wynant's—because of its oversized clothing with a belt buckle bearing an "R" (for "Rosebreen", that notorious figure's surname). In the 1976 comedy spoof movie Murder by Death, the characters of Nick and Nora Charles became Dick and Dora Charleston, played by David Niven and Maggie Smith.He paid the most attention to Powell and Loy's easy banter between takes and their obvious enjoyment of each other's company and worked it into the movie. Powell loved working so much with Loy because of her naturalness, her professionalism, and her lack of any kind of "diva" temperament. From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". In 'The Thin Man' (1934), young Dorothy Wynant (Maureen O'Sullivan) approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles (William Powell) when her inventor father appears to be a major suspect in a murder case.