Based on the classic Dashiell Hammett novel, *The Thin Man* (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke, introduces audiences to Nick and Nora Charles, cinema’s most sophisticated and spirited detective duo. Nick Charles (William Powell) is a former ace detective who has happily traded his badge for a life of leisure, managing his wife’s fortune and consuming a steady stream of martinis. His retirement is interrupted during a Christmas visit to New York City when the daughter of an eccentric, missing inventor—Clyde Wynant, the titular "Thin Man"—pleads with Nick to locate her father before his impending daughter’s wedding.

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