The song of the thin man

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Movie
German title The song of the thin man
Original title Song of the Thin Man
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1947
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Edward Buzzell
script Stanley Roberts (story)
production Nat Perrin
for MGM
music David Snell
camera Charles Rosher
cut Gene Ruggiero
occupation
chronology

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The thin man returns home

The Song of the Thin Man is an American crime comedy by Edward Buzzell from 1947. The film uses characters from the novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett and is the sixth and final installment in the Thin Man film series.

action

Nick and Nora Charles are guests on a casino ship . The jazz band on board plays well, except for clarinetist Buddy Hollis, who is unhappily in love with the singer Fran Ledue Page and beats one note after the other. Finally there is a fight between Buddy and the musician Tommy Drake, who will soon be going on tour for promoter Mitchell Talbin anyway and leaving the casino ship. Tommy, in turn, owes a lot to the seedy Al Amboy, and Talbin refuses to lend him any money. When Tommy tries to steal money a short time later, he is shot. Shortly afterwards Buddy Hollis disappears without a trace and Fran is found dead.

The firearm with which Tommy was killed belongs to the father of Janet Thayer, who, against the wishes of her family, married the unsuitable Phil Brant. Janet and Phil are now wanted for murder and Phil arrested a short time later at Nick's instigation, as he himself is the target of an attempted murder.

Nick finds out that Buddy Hollis went mad and ended up in a mental hospital in Poughkeepsie. When Nora tries to question him about the night of the murder, he shoots her with the same gun that belongs to David Thayer and accuses himself of murdering Tommy Drake - but Nick believes he is innocent.

Eventually Nick summons all suspects to the casino ship. Buddy Hollis, whose condition has improved slightly, appears and Nick finally announces that Buddy has already told him the perpetrator. After Nick has reconstructed the course of the crime, his calculation works: Mitchell Talbin poses as the murderer. He murdered Tommy Drake and brought suspicion to the mentally unstable Buddy Hollis. Fran visited Buddy Hollis in the psychiatric ward and soon knew that Talbin was Tommy's killer. She blackmailed him with her knowledge and was therefore murdered. Tommy, in turn, had to die because Talbin knew about Tommy's relationship with his wife Phyllis. Talbin had originally hoped that Al Amboy would kill Tommy over his debt. However, Phyllis moved her necklace and was able to settle Tommy's debts so that Talbin had to take care of Tommy himself.

Convicted, Talbin draws a gun, but is shot by his wife Phyllis, who has sworn to avenge the murder of her lover Tommy. At the end of the day, Nick and Nora are happy to finally be able to sleep in peacefully.

production

The Song of the Thin Man was filmed from January to March 1947. It was the 13th of a total of 14 films in which Myrna Loy and William Powell stood together in front of the camera. The film premiered in New York on August 28, 1947 . It was first shown on television in Germany in 1992.

criticism

For the film service , The Thin Man's Song is “the last and weakest film in the series about the detective, created by Dashiell Hammett and first shown in the cinema in 1934; the book lacks the wit of the first productions, the main characters of the crime comedy are now all too familiar. Moderate entertainment for friends of the series. "

Thin Man (film series)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Song of the Thin Man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used