After the Thin Man

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The Thin Man
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
Produced by Hunt Stromberg
Written by Dashiell Hammett (novel)
Albert Hackett
Frances Goodrich
Starring William Powell
Myrna Loy
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) 1936 (USA)
Running time 113 min.
Language English
Budget $226,408 (est.)
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After the Thin Man is the 1936 sequel to the film The Thin Man. It stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, and James Stewart. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and also starred Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshall and Penny Singleton.

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Nick and Nora return to their home in San Francisco where the murder victim and suspects are members of Nora's high-society family.

The Charleses are sucked into another murder case via Nora's cousin Elissa Landi, whose husband Alan Marshall has vanished. He has been conducting an affair with nightclub thrush Dorothy McNulty (later known as Penny Singleton) and is also blackmailing gangster Joseph Calleia. When the corpses begin piling up, Nick and Nora try to piece the clues together, with the earnest assistance of Jimmy Stewart, who carries a torch for Landi.[1]

The solution in this film is perhaps the most surprising out of all the movies: the character played by James Stewart turns out to be the maniacal murderer. At the end of the film, Nora tells Nick something he hasn't detected yet: that they're going to have a baby.

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The Thin Man movies

The Thin Man | After the Thin Man | Another Thin Man | Shadow of the Thin Man | The Thin Man Goes Home | Song of the Thin Man