The Thin Man Movie Review Film Summary 1. William Powell is to dialogue as Fred Astaire is to dance. His delivery is so. Thats certainly the case in The Thin Man. I/81ovMiO3MRL._SX342_.jpg' alt='Watch Drunks Full Movie' title='Watch Drunks Full Movie' />Full cast and crew, user comments, awards information, photographs, and related links. Powell and Myrna Loy co star as. Nick and Nora Charles, a retired detective and his rich wife, playfully in love. Advertisement. Nick. Charles drinks steadily throughout the movie, with the kind of capacity and wit. When we first see him, hes teaching a. Have rhythm in your shaking. Nora enters and he hands her a. She asks how much hes had. This will make six martinis, he. She orders five more, to keep up. Powell. plays the character with a lyrical alcoholic slur that waxes and wanes but. The drinks are the. After. Nick and Nora face down an armed intruder in their apartment one night, they. 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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. New Years. Eve. The movie is based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett, one of the fathers of. Astaire and Rogers musical, with elegant people in luxury hotel. Depression anywhere in sight. The. Thin Man was one of the most popular films of 1. Oscars best picture, actor, direction and. Yet it was made as an inexpensive B picture. Powell and Loy had. Manhattan. Melodrama the last film John Dillinger ever saw, and were quickly cast. MGM in this crime comedy that was filmed, incredibly, in only two weeks. The. quick shooting schedule was possible because there are very few sets and. W. S. Van Dyke, was known for sticking to a schedule. That The Thin Man cost so little and looks so good is possibly. Powell and Loy, included Maureen OSullivan and a young. Cesar Romero. And there is a kind of grace in the way the 6 foot Powell hovers. Loy or sometimes simply leans as if blown in her. Advertisement. Although. Dashiell Hammett was known for hard boiled fiction, and John Hustons 1. Hammetts The Maltese Falcon was one of the first examples of film noir. The Thin Man is essentially a drawing room comedy with dead bodies. The plot is so preposterous that no reasonable viewer can follow it, and the. Nick Charles. typically stands in the midst of inexplicable events with a drink in his hand. When. a reporter asks him, Cant you tell us anything about the case. Nick replies Yes. Its putting me way behind in my drinking. Briefly. Edward Ellis. OSullivan, who is an old friend of Nick and. Nora the greed of the inventors ex wife Minna Goimbell the even greater. Romero the suspicious motives of the. Natalie Moorhead, and various other thugs, gunsels, cops. Charles suite for free drinks. One. of the movies charms is the playfulness with which Nick and Nora treat each. During one ostensibly serious scene, Nick pretends to find a. On Christmas morning, Nick tests the new. Christmas. tree. Nick throws a dinner party for all of the suspects, with plainclothes. Nora tells one of them Waiter, will you serve the. I mean, will you serve the guests the nutsAdvertisement. The. movies only real skullduggery comes when Nick goes on a midnight prowl through. Asta. Skippy, the couples high spirited terrier. Nick and Nora included him in all. Asta became one of the most famous movie dogs of his. Assuming. as we must that The Thin Man is not about a series of murders and. Hitchcock as the. Mac. Guffin, what is it about It is about personal style. About living life as. Of the early lives of Nick and Nora we learn little, except. San Francisco detective and retired after marrying. Nora. As Nick explains vaguely to a friend, her father left her a small gauge. As. a consequence, Nick and Nora have a lot of money and spent their time traveling. At. one point in the film, when Nora wakens Nick in the middle of the night, he. They are alcoholics in any realistic. It is simply a. behavior, like smoking, that gives them something to do with their hands. Even when Nora. appears with an ice bag on her head, it looks more like clowning than like a. Loy was a delightful foil to Powell, but in this film she is essentially just. Powell dominates the picture with his deep, rich voice, his. For audiences in the middle of. Depression, The Thin Man, like the Astaire and Rogers musicals. Beautiful people in expensive. Advertisement. Powells. He worked in silent films from 1. Doc in. Mister Roberts. He was nominated for best actor for this film, the. My Man Godfrey 1. Life with Father. But he never won an Oscar. Powell lived until 1. All through the 1. Motion Picture Academy to give him an Oscar for lifetime achievement. Academy never did. To see The Thin Man is to watch him. Bill W. Movie Review Film Summary 2. Bill W. tells the story of Bill Wilson and the organization he co founded, Alcoholics Anonymous. What is most remarkable about AA is that for many alcoholics, it works its current U. S. membership is estimated at 2 million. It has no leadership, it charges no money, its just rooms of former drunks, and a great many people find it helps them stay sober for as the program says one day at a time. Alcohol is an addiction. Most people can drink moderately. Some cannot. They dont choose to get drunk, but they learn again and again to quote that they are powerless over alcohol. To help them, AA uses not drugs, not psychiatry, not expert theories, but group meetings. There is a crucial moment in this film when Bill W., stranded in Akron, Ohio, after a business deal falls through, paces a hotel lobby with his eyes drawn to the cocktail lounge, and in desperation hears himself saying on the phone, I need to talk to another drunk. Advertisement. That leads to his historic first meeting with Dr. Bob Smith, an Akron surgeon whose drinking was endangering his career and the lives of his patients. They began with some of the principles of the Oxford Group, a non denominational Christian fellowship popular in the 1. From their early experiences they distilled the Twelve Steps, which have since been borrowed by countless recovery programs. This documentary is an assembly of styles. It incorporates such film footage of Bill as is available, and then uses actors to re enact chapters in his story. The actors never speak the voices heard are from tape recordings made by Bill W. Dr. Bob Bills long suffering wife, Lois, and others. The period re creations are detailed and convincing. We also see some current AA members, their faces in shadow, some of whom knew Bill before his death in 1. Bill was not a saint, and the film doesnt hesitate to deal with his flaws. He cheated once on Lois, for example. He also notoriously experimented with LSD in the earliest days of that drugs history, when it was legal and was thought to be a possible cure for addiction. He stopped, realizing a cure had to come from within. Judging by this film, neither Bill nor Bob seems to have been particularly religious. The second step of their program calls for alcoholics to call on a Higher Power as we understand him, but the power is never identified, and the idea seems to have been realizing the power was not their own willpower. Some complain that AA requires members to believe in God, but it doesnt, and that objection is sometimes joked about as choosing to stay drunk for theological reasons. Watch Sherlock Holmes In Washington 4Shared. Bill was a tall drink of water, a craggy man from Vermont who had a knack for business but kept drinking himself out of success. Ironically, he was to found an organization that was once studied by the Harvard Business School as a model of nonprofit, self perpetuating functionality. He probably could have made a lot of money by commercializing AA the movie shows John D. Rockefeller as one of his early backers, but he never did. When members got together, that was a meeting. No dues or fees. The program was carried by oral tradition. A key part of AA was anonymity Who you see here, what you say here, let it stay here. Bill Wilson himself was not anonymous that horse was already out of the barn and his fame was such that Time magazine named him as one of the 1. Told he should be on a postage stamp, he said Theyd have to show the back of my head.