Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

OneEightNine Media Classic Hollywood at its most.. classic, I guess. The Thin Man films have a following and are an important part in the grand story of what made cinema great and etc, etc; however, this shouldn't be the first Thin Man movie you check out. In fact it should be the last. Not only because it was the last Thin Man but also because it far from the best Thin Man. I can't say it is the worst Thin Man, because I haven't seen most of them (I believe there are 6 or 7 of them). Anyway, the film isn't great but it is watchable. It is about a couple, a detective and his wife who are also martini drinking socialists who are on a gambling ship, on the night a murder occurs and they need to figure out who did it. Most of the Thin Man movies are similar in that they revolve around a who done it plot. I honestly couldn't stop watching it because it is charming and frankly a breath of fresh air from all the mindless films out there. 2015 was such a disappointing year for films and I have a bad feeling about 2016 as well. Thankfully, there are a lot of gems out there for people who know where to look and the Thin Man series has a few of those gems in it. Start out with watching the very first Thin Man movie and if you like it, continue on down the line. Anyway, this film was enjoyable and will keep you watching regardless of the drag at times. IMDb Isn't letting me give it a 6.5 out of 10 so I'll just round up to a 7.

binapiraeus Aboard a gambling ship where Nick and Nora are invited by rich David Thayar, the atmosphere is obviously pretty much poisonous - and by the end of the night, it becomes murderous, too: band leader Tommy Drake, hated by just about everyone on board, is shot. And suspect number one is - Phil Brant, who just married secretly Thayar's daughter Janet. So the newly-weds seek help from Janet's friends Nick and Nora; but instead, Nick turns Phil over to the police - but why? Because he wants him in a safe place, since he's afraid somebody might kill him - and a prison cell IS (temporarily, at least) a safe place...And then Nick and Nora start their investigations - and very soon we've got a whole bunch of suspects: clarinetist Buddy Hollis, who's become an alcoholic since Drake stole his girlfriend, the beautiful singer Fran (a great performance by Gloria Grahame!), gambling boss Al Amboy, whom he owed a lot of money, and of course Thayar, who disapproved of his daughter's marriage and might want to get Brant out of the way...And then there are the members of the band, of course, who haven't actually got a motive, but certainly hated their 'boss' enough to actually celebrate his death - but here the fun begins: Nick gets the second clarinetist, 'Clinker', to help him search for the vanished Buddy Hollis (he found a razor blade at the scene of the crime, and every clarinetist uses one for cleaning his instrument...); and so we (and Nick and Nora, who don't seem to be very up-to-date anymore on the latest music hits and musicians' slang) get a chance to see some really crazy jam sessions! But then things become serious again: they find Buddy in an asylum, completely deranged by now, then Fran is mysteriously stabbed in her apartment - and when Nick and Nora come back home, where they had left Nickie Jr. in Janet's care, they find them both missing... Could she possible be wanting to take revenge for the way Nick treated her husband?? Although at times a bit too melodramatic and complicated, even this last one of the 'Thin Man' films provides many different elements: a shade of Noir, a glimpse into the jazz world, some humor, some suspense, a quite intriguing plot, and good solid performances.The sad thing about this movie, though, is that the carefree, nonconformist, cheeky Nick and Nora that we knew at last are turning 'typically American', almost bourgeois: they've become rather strict parents (Nick spanks Jr. when he tries to sneak out to play baseball instead of practicing piano), and compared to the 'hep cats' of the band, with first and best Keenan Wynn as 'Clinker', they look - almost intentionally - pretty old-fashioned and stuffy. All this is a mirror of the general atmosphere in the US society toward the end of the 40s, of course; but it also shows that the good old days of crime comedy were coming to an end - and this film is kind of a 'swan song' for that great genre that had blossomed in the 30s and early 40s...

CCsito This is the sixth and last in the series of Thin Man movies with William Powell and Myrna Loy. The plot deals with a night club manager who is murdered after he assaults a trumpet player in a band and two times a girlfriend and well as owe several thousand dollars to another man. Nick and Nora take on the murder case at the request of the girlfriend (Jayne Meadows) of the prime murder suspect. The jilted murder victim's girlfriend (Gloria Grahame) also gets bumped off as well. The movie has some scenes with the son of the Thin Man (played by Dean Stockwell). Keenan Wynn costars as one of the band members (though he is never considered to be a prime suspect). There is still a good chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy in this movie. There are less good one liners that you often heard from the earlier movies in the series though. Asta also has a few good scenes in this movie. William Powell and Myrna Loy appear a bit more tired in this last movie of the series. But I guess that is to be expected as one gets older anyway.

Elswet This was another excuse to showcase the wonderful chemistry between Loy and Powell. Thankfully, I cannot say that there is no attention to detail, story, plot, or execution, because there is. It does somehow seem to be secondary, however, to the marvelous on screen relationship the principles enjoy.I like this in spite of the comparatively weak production style, plot, etc. and more for the quirky, sweet element and less for the tremendously compelling story or plot. It has a close feeling to Another Thin Man in that it was enjoyable, not as good as Shadow, or the first two installments, but enjoyable, nonetheless.All in all? This is great for an afternoon, or rainy day movie.It rates a 7.3/10 from...the Fiend :.