The Thin Man Goes Home

Dec 24, 1944

1h 41m

★ 7.1

Together again in M-G-M's riotous comedy.

Overview

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Genres

Comedy

Mystery

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Nick Charles

William Powell

Nora Charles

Myrna Loy

Mrs. Marta Charles

Lucile Watson

Laura Belle Ronson

Gloria DeHaven

Crazy Mary

Anne Revere

Helena Draque

Helen Vinson

Dr. Bertram Charles

Harry Davenport

Edgar Draque

Leon Ames

Willie Crump

Donald Meek

Brogan

Edward Brophy

Dr. Bruce Clayworth

Lloyd Corrigan

Hilda

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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