History Film / TheThinMan

* ChocolateBaby: In ''After the Thin Man'', Asta the dog comes home to the missus to see she's got a litter of puppies...one of which is too darkly colored to be his. He spies a nearby black Scottish Terrier sneaking through a hole under the fence and drives off the intruder angrily, then fills in the hole. Pretty racy stuff for the time period it was made in.

** Jimmy Stewart [[RetroactiveRecognition would be this, if he'd had a type yet]] at the time he starred in ''After the Thin Man''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheThreeStooges Shemp Howard]] has a small role in ''Another Thin Man'' as one of Nick's hoodlum friends.

* ThoseTwoActors: Powell and Loy made several other movies together as well, including ''film/TheGreatZiegfeld''.

''The Thin Man'' is a 1934 (and thus, pre-HaysCode) movie based on a DashiellHammett [[Literature/TheThinMan novel of the same name]], and features William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a pair of hard-drinking, wisecracking, socializing types -- except that Nick is also famous for being a tough detective, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't quite stop people (most especially including Nora) expecting him to solve crimes. Almost every single modern [[TheyFightCrime crime-solving-duo]] owes something to this film -- everything from ''Series/{{Castle}}'' to ''{{Warehouse 13}}'', from ''Series/HartToHart'' and ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' to ''{{Moonlighting}}'' is, in part, a riff on a theme established in ''The Thin Man''.

Powell and Loy's chemistry and charisma were obvious, and several sequels followed, probably not quite up the standard of the first, but still very well done: ''After The Thin Man'', ''Another Thin Man'', ''Shadow of the Thin Man'', ''The Thin Man Goes Home'', and ''Song of the Thin Man''. ''After'' is noteworthy for an appearance by a disturbingly young JimmyStewart, playing what would prove to be a very atypical role, while an even-younger DeanStockwell played the couple's son in ''Song''.

** Jimmy Stewart would be this, if he'd had a type yet at the time he starred in ''After the Thin Man''.

* ThoseTwoActors: Powell and Loy made several other movies together as well.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Nick in ''The Thin Man Goes Home''. Nora claims that if he ever got a pat on the back from his father, he'd burst a vest-button. It literally happens in the final scene.

* MamaBear: Seeing the villain about to shoot Nick in ''Shadow,'' Nora throws herself straight onto the guy and wrestles him into submission with a choke-hold, all the while screaming for Nick to run for it (keep in mind; the man had a gun which he was pointing ''straight at'' Nick and Nora). Granted, she then passed out and had no memory of it, but it's still awesome.

* ExactWords: In ''Shadow'' Nick bets Abrams five dollars that "there was only one murderer" in the case of two seemingly unrelated shootings. Abrams can see no connection between the two and takes the bet. [[spoiler:They're both right; the two deaths are unrelated, but Nick has already deduced that the first was an accident, so there ''was'' only one murderer]].

* ExactWords: In ''Shadow''. Nick bets Abrams five dollars that "there was only one murderer" in the case of two seemingly unrelated shootings. Abrams can see no connection between the two and takes the bet. [[spoiler:They're both right; the two deaths are unrelated, but Nick has already deduced that the first was an accident, so there ''was'' only one murderer]].

* ExactWords: In ''Shadow''. Nick bets Abrams five dollars that "there was only one murderer" in the case of two seemingly unrelated shootings. Abrams can see no connection between the two and takes the bet. They're both right; the two deaths are unrelated, but Nick has already deduced that the first was an accident, so there ''was'' only one murderer.

* {{Kayfabe}}: ''Shadow of the Thin Man'' has Nick and Nora attend a wrestling match. When the man running it says that they are in for a great match, Nick quips "Why, were you at the rehearsal?". Later on they leave while the fight is still going on, with one wrestler in a painful looking hold and groaning with discomfort. As she passes the ring, Nora tells him that she hopes he gets out of it okay. The wrestler stops groaning and thanks her for her concern in a perfectly normal tone of voice.

''The Thin Man'' is a 1934 (and thus, pre-HaysCode) movie based on a DashiellHammett [[Literature/TheThinMan novel of the same name]], and features William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a pair of hard-drinking, wisecracking, socializing types -- except that Nick is also famous for being a tough detective, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't quite stop people (most especially including Nora) expecting him to solve crimes. Almost every single modern [[TheyFightCrime crime-solving-duo]] owes something to this film -- everything from ''Series/{{Castle}}'' to ''{{Warehouse 13}}'', from ''HartToHart'' and ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' to ''{{Moonlighting}}'' is, in part, a riff on a theme established in ''The Thin Man''.

* HappilyMarried: Nick and Nora.
* IdleRich: Nick and Nora want to be.

-->'''NiCk:''' ::SpitTake::

''The Thin Man'' is a 1934 (and thus, pre-HaysCode) movie based on a DashiellHammett novel, and features William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a pair of hard-drinking, wisecracking, socializing types -- except that Nick is also famous for being a tough detective, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't quite stop people (most especially including Nora) expecting him to solve crimes. Almost every single modern [[TheyFightCrime crime-solving-duo]] owes something to this film -- everything from ''Series/{{Castle}}'' to ''{{Warehouse 13}}'', from ''HartToHart'' and ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' to ''{{Moonlighting}}'' is, in part, a riff on a theme established in ''The Thin Man''.