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Director Jack Conway’s 1941 comedy does itself and us the enormous favour of teaming The Thin Man (1934) couple William Powell and Myrna Loy yet again. Powell stars as Steve Ireland, who attempts everything he knows to […]
Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey) and Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) star as the shallow but sweet gold-diggers of 1953 in director Jean Negulesco’s entertaining smash comedy. The trio of […]
Director Jack Conway’s glitzy 1942 mystery film noir thriller is set in Paris in 1935 and tells an engrossing story with classic vintage actors. Despite being made during World War Two and its setting, there’s no hint of […]
The bubbly 1939 comedy detective thriller film Another Thin Man is another enjoyable Thin Man mystery, the third in the MGM six-movie franchise, based on Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op story The Farewell Murder. Director W […]
The story for the 1936 sequel film After the Thin Man is specially written by legendary Dashiell Hammett, based on his sleuth characters of Nick and Nora in his 1934 novel The Thin Man but […]
Director W S Van Dyke’s sparkling 1934 comedy thriller The Thin Man is a bright, bubbly and witty version of the much darker-toned Dashiell Hammett classic detective novel renowned for its brilliantly told masterly mystery […]
MGM’s famed 1934 crime film Manhattan Melodrama is the definitive version of an oft-told tale about two ghetto orphan kids (Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney) maturing into adult buddies (William Powell and Clark Gable) on opposite […]