Song of the Thin Man

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Song of the Thin Man
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Directed by	Edward Buzzell
Starring	William Powell Myrna Loy
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1947
Running time	86 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
Preceded by	The Thin Man Goes Home
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Song of the Thin Man was a 1947 film directed by Edward Buzzell, the last of the six Thin Man films. Like the others, it stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Nick Jr. (now old enough for a two-wheeled bicycle and piano lessons) is played by Dean Stockwell. Keenan Wynn, Gloria Grahame and Jayne Meadows are featured in this story set in the world of nightclub musicians. The plot, somewhat more convoluted and darker than the other Thin Man movies, reflected post war sensabilities.

This Thin Man movie differs in several respects from the others in the series. It was one of two films in the series not directed by W.S. Van Dyke, who died in 1943, and the script was one of two not written by the husband and wife team of Albert Hacket and Francis Goodrich who had worked with Dashell Hammett to develop the Nick and Nora characters earlier in the series. Consequently, it lacks the lightness of touch of previous efforts. There is almost an attempt to marry the then very popular film noir genre to the light breeziness of the previous Thin Man movies and it does not quite work as well as the previous examples