August is nearly upon us…
And with it comes the release of the complete box set collection of Dick Powell and Myrna Loy starring in:
After the Thin Man
Another Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man
The Thin Man
The Thin Man Goes Home
Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home To
William Powell: A True Gentleman
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=12569673991&frm=0&itm=1
Superlative stuff. They don’t make 'em like that any more. Sigh.
Nick, Nora, and Asta. It doesn’t get much better than that. Plus they probably sat down for drinks more than anyone besides WC Fields.
I’ve never heard of it.
Ooooh, this shoul d be fun. I also loved David Niven and Miaggie Smith’s take off on them in Murder](http://imdb.com/title/tt0074937/%22%3EMurder) By Death At least I always assumed they were a take off of them.
I should be able to order that boxed set at the same time as the season one release of the Muppet Show!
That’s good stuff! You should rent it sometime, Cran (or, many libraries carry them on VHS).
The dialog is great! My alma mater was showing The Thin Man on their big screen for free last month,
but I found out too late 
I think I’ll have to get this set for my wife for Christmas…
Asta!!! Asta rules baby!!! 
I love old movies, Powell, and Loy, but I was never big on these movies. But then again, I’ve never been big on detective stories, so that might explain it. But still, it’s great to see so many people know about these movies.
A local theatre here runs a bunch of old movies during the summer. It’s great to see them the way they were intended to be seen. The theatre was built in the 20s, so the whole experience is like a time machine. Well…except that there are people there wearing t-shirts and denim shorts…but other than THAT…
Keep those old movies alive people!
I have a bunch of Old Time Radio files, including Dick Powell’s “Richard Diamond” series, and “The Thin Man” radio show (I think it was a Lux Theatre presentation) performed by the movie cast. Plus a bunch of old movies on DVD and VCD (the likes of Sherlock Holmes - Rathbone and Bruce of course). Not to mention Hitchcock. It’s great stuff.
In those days, it seems to me, actors could act, plot was king, dialogue was crisp and timing was everything. These days it’s all SFX and CGI, and movies are made not in the camera, can and cutting-room, but in a computer. Given a choice between “North By Northwest” or any of the dreck pumped out by Hollywood today… Hitchcock Vs Tarantino/Spielberg/Lucas/Ridley Scott… well, there’s no choice to be made really, imho.
And I don’t give much credence to the industry’s wailing that ‘audiences today are more sophisticated’ and therefore expect a bazillion dollars’ of SFX in a film before it can be declared ‘good’. I think they’ve just foisted pap on us all for so long now that entire generations now have no idea just how good movies really used to be, and what ‘stars’ really were.
Yeah there was cack made back then too, but the good stuff is still great stuff.
Having grown up with more modern movie-making, I had to get used to the differences in old
films (similar to acclimating myself to British humor), but it was worth it!
I noticed that in films like Arsenic and Old Lace or His Gal Friday, words spill out of
the actors’ mouths very quickly (compared to today’s standards), and you have to catch them
all because the dialog is very important. This causes the audience to really engage itself with the
story. I think this is also why I liked The West Wing before Aaron “Shroomhead” Sorkin left.
What about:
I Was a Teenage Thin Man
The Thin Man From the Black Lagoon
Revenge of the Thin Man
My Mother the Thin Man
Planet of the Thin Men
Thin Man and the Chamber of Secrets
Abbot and Costello Meet the Thin Man
Gone With The Thin Man
…any more?
I know! They were total lushes, especially in the book. Great book, too, by the way. Those who never read the book may not realize that “The Thin Man” actually referred to the villian in the book, not to the detective Nick Charles.
J.
The Quiet Thin Man