Thin Man Goes Home [Blu-ray]

Overview

This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per the title, retired private detective Nick Charles (William Powell) pays a visit to his home town of Sycamore Springs, with wife Nora (Myrna Loy) in tow. Poor Nick is amusingly browbeaten by his parents (Harry Davenport and Lucile Watson), who wanted their boy to study medicine, is frustrated by the fact that there isn't a good stiff drink to be had in town, and is hilariously defeated by a recalcitrant hammock. In a more serious vein, Nick and Nora become involved in international intrigue while investigating the murder of a local house painter. If the identity of the murderer seems obvious today, it is only because the actor in question has played so many "surprise killers" in other films of this genre. A refreshing change of pace for the usually urbanized "Thin Man" series, The Thin Man Goes Home features such colorful suspects as Gloria DeHaven, Edward Brophy, Lloyd Corrigan, Leon Ames, and, best of all, Ann Revere as a local eccentric named "Crazy Mary."

Product Details

Release Date:	11/23/2021
UPC:	0883929777150
Original Release:	1944
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	5,654

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

William Powell	Nicholas Charles
Myrna Loy	Nora Charles
Lucile Watson	Mrs. Charles,Sam Ronson
Gloria De Haven	Laurabelle Ronson
Anne Revere	Crazy Mary
Harry Davenport	Dr. Charles
Helen Vinson	Helena Draque
Lloyd Corrigan	Bruce Clayworth
Donald Meek	Willie Crump
Edward Brophy	Brogam,Brogan
Leon Ames	Edgar Draque
Paul Langton	Tom Clayworth
Donald MacBride	Chief MacGregory
Anita Sharp Bolster	Hilda
Charles Halton	Tatum
Morris Ankrum	Willoughby
Nora Cecil	Miss Peavy
Wally Cassell	Bill Burns
Arthur Hohl	Charlie
Anthony Warde	Captain
Bill Smith	Skating Act
Lucille Browne	Skating Act
Mickey Harris	Contortionist
Rex Evans	Fat Man
Harry Hayden	Conductor
Connie Gilchrist	Woman With Baby
Robert Emmett O'Connor	Baggage Man,Baggage Man
Dick Botiller	Big Man's Companion
John Wengraf	Big Man
Ralph Brooks	Tom Burton
Jane Green	Housekeeper
Irving Bacon	Tom the Proprietor
Virginia Sale	Tom's Wife
Garry Owen	Pool Player
Saul Gorss	Bartender
Bert May	Sailor
Chester Clute	Drunk
Clarence Muse	Porter
Tom Fadden	Train Passenger
Joseph J. Greene	Train Passenger
Sarah Edwards	Train Passenger
Frank Jaquet	Train Passenger
Oliver Blake	Reporter
Don Wilson	Masseur
Etta McDaniel	Ronson's Maid
Tom Dugan	Slugs
Edward Gargan	Mickey
Tom Dillon	Officer
Bill Hunter	Officer,Officer
Marjorie Wood	Montage Shot Mother
Catherine McLeod	Montage Shot Daughter
Clancy Cooper	Butcher
Joe Yule	Barber
Robert E. Homans	Railroad Clerk
Lee Phelps	Cop
Helen Eby-Rock	Tart
Jean Acker	Tart
Mike Mazurki	Man
Mitchell Lewis	Man
Ray Teal	Man
Anita Bolster	Hilda
Ralph Brooke	Peter Berton
Thomas P. Dillon	Actor
David Snell	Composer

Technical Credits

Robert Riskin

Dwight Taylor

Harry Kurnitz

Richard Thorpe	Director
Robert Riskin	Screenwriter,Producer
Dwight Taylor	Screenwriter
Harry Kurnitz	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

"Every closet has a skeleton," says famed New York detective Nick Charles (William Powell), or words to that effect, and supposedly laid-back Sycamore Springs is loaded with both. Happily, Nick and Nora (Myrna Loy) are vacationing at the old homestead when the bodies begin to drop and are thus at the right time and place to catch yet another desperate killer. No one in Sycamore Springs takes death too seriously, of course, and The Thin Man Goes Home employs even more comedy than its predecessors, to the point of having the dignified Loy perform a wild jitterbug. Richard Thorpe functions as directorial traffic cop with his usual professionalism and the stock company, which includes such obvious red herrings as Anita Sharp-Bolster, Helen Vinson, Morris Ankrum, and the marvelous Anne Revere, takes care of the rest. Yet for all that, The Thin Man Goes Home is far from vintage comedy-whodunit. Perhaps the reason is the Charleses' newfound sobriety, a necessary concession to a less frivolous time, but the bloom is visibly off the rose and the star duo seems merely to be treading water.

All Movie Guide - Hans J. Wollstein