Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth of the six The Thin Man films. It was released in 1941 and was directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. Also, in this film their son Nick Jr. Dickie Hall is old enough to figure in the comic subplot. Other cast members include Donna Reed and Barry Nelson. This was one of three films in which Stella Adler appeared.
Shadow of the Thin Man was eagerly welcomed, coming two years after the previous outing and hitting theaters just two weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It would be three years before Loy would make another film The Thin Man Goes Home in 1945 as she left Hollywood for New York, where she volunteered with the Red Cross.The film includes a rather novel scene filmed on the recently completed San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge, wherein Nick amp Nora Charles, while driving eastbound on the upper deck disallowed when the bridge was reconfigured in 1962 are stopped on the bridge for speeding, by a highway patrolman while traffic whizzes by, which would be unheard of in recent history. Just after this scene theres a short sequence of them driving through the MacArthur Maze, an interchange on the east end of the bridge, and then north on a barren stretch of highway which today is Interstate 80 passing through crowded Emeryville and Berkeley. The local racetrack central to the plot is Golden Gate Fields. ........
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