The thin man returns home

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Movie
German title The thin man returns home
Original title The Thin Man Goes Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Thorpe
script Robert Riskin
Harry Kurnitz
production Everett Riskin
for MGM
music David Snell
camera Karl friend
cut Ralph E. Winters
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Shadow of the Thin Man

Successor  →
The Song of the Thin Man

The Thin Man Returns is an American crime comedy directed by Richard Thorpe from 1945. The film, which uses characters from Dashiell Hammett 's novel The Thin Man , is the fifth installment in the Thin Man film series, which includes six feature films .

action

Nick and Nora Charles are going to see Nick's parents in Sycamore Springs for the weekend. The relationship with his father is very tense, if he wants him to become a doctor like him. Everyone in Sycamore Springs believes Nick is in town because of a (murder) case. The residents greet him enthusiastically, according to the young acting student Laura Belle Ronson, daughter of the banker Sam Ronson; less her jealous friend Tom Clayworth, his father, the doctor Bruce Clayworth, and also the postcard seller Brogan, whom Nick knows from his time as a criminal. In fact, the young Peter Berton was shot dead in front of Nick's front door soon afterwards.

Apparently the murder has something to do with a picture that Nora bought for Nick at a local art dealer that same day. Since he finds the kitschy painting with the local wind turbine , which fascinated him in his youth, ugly, Nora took it to a bazaar. There the mysterious Helena Draque was born, who showed keen interest in all of the painter's works - none other than the shot Peter Berton. Nick and Nora are now looking for the picture. They find Helena Draque passed out in her hotel room. The picture has disappeared. Nick goes to the crazy Mary just outside of town. Her name was formerly Elinor Morgan and is the mother of Peter Berton, whom she gave up for adoption as a baby in Boston in her need . Nick finds Mary shot, but the picture is still there. After a brief investigation, Nick has all the suspects appear at his parents' house. It turns out that the doctor Clayworth is the culprit.

Under an X-ray machine it can be clearly seen that there is a second image under the image, namely a fifth of a turbine blueprint that was supposed to be betrayed to a foreign power. The other four plans can be found under other pictures by Peter Berton, which were also acquired by Helena Draque. They were resold in turn by her husband, who received astronomical sums for the individual plans. The action was threaded by Draque and Clayworth, who could win Berton to copy the plans. When Berton got out of the matter and Nick wanted to confess everything to Charles, Clayworth shot him from ambush with a rifle. He also kills the crazy Mary after she found out about the matter and blackmailed the banker to get her the picture. When his little brother was killed in a fight, Ranson had refused to help the heavily pregnant Mary, so she had to put Peter Berton up for adoption in her distress.

When the killer threatens those present with an unloaded weapon, he is overwhelmed and led away. Nick, however, is now accepted by his father.

production

The original plan was to shoot The Skinny Man Comes directly after the previous film in the series, The Skinny Man's Shadow . But Myrna Loy had married in 1942 and started working for the Red Cross in New York . At this point in time, the USA was already in World War II . The start of filming was delayed by around two years, it began in May and ended in July 1944. It was the 12th of a total of 14 films in which Myrna Loy and William Powell stood together in front of the camera.

It was the first film in the Thin Man series in which the original film dog Asta was replaced by a younger terrier. It was also the first film in the series that was not directed by WS Van Dyke , who had died in 1943. Director Richard Thorpe, on the other hand, was represented by Norman Taurog shortly before the end of filming , as the three of him had already started working on honeymoon . The Thin Man Returns Home premiered on May 23, 1945. In Germany it was shown in the cinema for the first time in 1951, and it was first shown on television in 1992.

criticism

The film service described The Thin Man Returns as "the penultimate, in every respect sober production of the initially so enjoyable 'Thin Man' series".

Thin Man (film series)

Web links

Commons : The Thin Man Goes Home  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. See imdb.com
  2. The thin man returns home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used