History Film / AnotherThinMan

* RunningGag: After Nora learns the names of some of Nick's previous girlfriends (from someone besides Nick), she starts using them as "aliases" around Nick.

--> '''Guard''': What's with the kid?\\
'''Nick''': Well, we had a dog and he was lonesome.

* NeverTrustATitle: So...why is it called ''Another Thin Man''?[[note]]See Title Drop in AfterTheThinMan[[/note]]

* NeverTrustATitle: So...why is it called ''Another Thin Man''?

Eighth of [[ThoseTwoActors fourteen films]] starring Powell and Loy. Powell's return to movie-making after nearly dying from colon cancer.

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''Another Thin Man'' is a 1939 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke II, starring Creator/WilliamPowell and Creator/MyrnaLoy. It is the third of six films in the "Thin Man" series that started with ''Film/TheThinMan'' in 1934.

In this one Nick and Nora Charles (Powell and Loy) have returned to New York City with their infant son Nick Jr., whereupon they are summoned out to Long Island to meet with Col. [=MacFay=], a stuffy old Brit (played by Creator/CAubreySmith, patron saint of Hollywood's stuffy old Brits), who has been managing Nora's business interests. [=MacFay=] has become convinced that Phil Church, formerly an employee of his that went to prison for shady business dealings, is out to get him. His daughter Lois (Virginia Grey) is terrified for her father. Sure enough, the Colonel is murdered while Nick and Nora are staying at his mansion, and Nick Charles is drawn against his will into another murder mystery.

In this one Nick and Nora Charles (Powell and Loy) have returned to New York City with their infant son Nick Jr., whereupon they are summoned out to Long Island to meet with Col. [=MacFay=], a stuffy old Brit (played by C. Aubrey Smith, patron saint of stuffy old Brits), who has been managing Nora's business interests. [=MacFay=] has become convinced that Phil Church, formerly an employee of his that went to prison for shady business dealings, is out to get him. His daughter Lois (Virginia Grey) is terrified for her father. Sure enough, the Colonel is murdered while Nick and Nora are staying at his mansion, and Nick Charles is drawn against his will into another murder mystery.

--> '''Nick:''' Now Mommy, you know you shouldn't be out of bed so soon. What would the doctors say?

--> (Everyone around them makes excuses and leaves.)

In this one Nick and Nora Charles (Powell and Loy) have gone back to New York to meet Col. [=MacFay=], a stuffy old Brit (played by C. Aubrey Smith, patron saint of stuffy old Brits), who has been managing Nora's business interests. [=MacFay=] has become convinced that Phil Church, formerly an employee of his that went to prison for shady business dealings, is out to get him. His daughter Lois (Virginia Grey) is terrified for her father. Sure enough, the Colonel is murdered while Nick and Nora are staying at his Long Island mansion, and Nick Charles is drawn against his will into another murder mystery.

* TheAlibi: Lois is with Nick and Nora when the Colonel's shot goes off, so she is believed to be innocent. It is revealed that with Phil's help she set up an elaborate timing mechanism in which she first killed her father, and then rigged the gun to go off five minutes later, after she'd left.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: As usual in the Thin Man series, a character that seemed perfectly innocent was the murderer. This time it's Lois, who killed her own father in order to get her inheritance. Hilariously, the formerly prim and proper Lois starts talking in a distinctly low-class voice after she's exposed.

* {{Patricide}}: Lois is revealed as TheSociopath who killed her father because she wanted her inheritance so she could live the high life.

* SummationGathering: As with all Thin Man films. This one is a little different in that Nick has already figured out that Lois did it. In the first two films he didn't know before the gathering and had to tease out a slip-up from the killer.

* BusmansHoliday: Nick never wants to go detecting. This time he's merely trying to start running Nora's busineses.
* BroughtHomeTheWrongKid: Some of Nick's hoodlum friends decide to throw Little Nicky a first birthday party, and bring all their own kids. One of them has to rent one to attend. The villain of the story, after being revealed, attempts to get away by claiming to have kidnapped Nicky. Nora goes to check and sure enough, there is another kid in his place. Turns out the villain was bluffing; Nick's friend had grabbed the wrong kid when he left, and the villain happened to notice before everyone else. The friend soon returns with Nicky, clearing it up.

* NeverOneMurder: Part of the "Thin Man" formula. In this one, Church is killed towards the end.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Phil Church's confrontation with Nick ends with Church demanding money, then making an obvious threat, explaining that people he's dreamed of always die after his third dream of their death--and that he's dreamed of Nora and their baby. This gets Nick really pissed and leads to the Papa Wolf moment (see above).

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [=MacFay's=] business partners are oddly blase upon seeing his corpse, much to Nick's confusion.

--> '''Nora: (catching on)''' I won't go back into quarantine, I don't care who catches it!

--> (Everyone around them makes excuses and leaves.)

* RetroactiveRecognition: Shemp Howard, later of the Three Stooges, has an uncredited supporting role.

* ItWasHereISwear: The sight of a body lying in the road causes Nick to stop the car and jump out. the body then disappears. It turns out to be Dum-Dum, playing mind games.

''Another Thin Man'' is a 1939 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Creator/WilliamPowell and Creator/MyrnaLoy. It is the third of six films in the "Thin Man" series that started with ''Film/TheThinMan'' in 1934.

''Another Thin Man'' is a 1939 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Creator/WilliamPowell and Myrna Loy. It is the third of six films in the "Thin Man" series that started with ''Film/TheThinMan'' in 1934.

* TheBladeLandsPointyEndIn: As seen when Church's {{Mook}} Dum-Dum throws one at Nick and it lodges in a mantel.

* IllHaveTwoBeersToo: Nick and Nora are at a night club. Nick asks the waiter for a bourbon, then looks at his wife and says "uh, two bourbons." Nora says "The same."