The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man Goes Home is a 1945 motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe. It is the fifth of the six Thin Man films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammetts dapper exprivate detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora. This entry in The Thin Man series was the first not directed by W.S. Van Dyke, who had died in 1943.

An old childhood friend, Dr. Bruce Clayworth Lloyd Corrigan, performs the autopsy and extracts a pistol bullet. Then, when Nick searches Bertons room for clues, he is knocked unconscious by Crazy Mary Anne Revere, a local eccentric.Noras innocent purchase of a painting for Nicks birthday present turns out to be the key to the mystery. When she shows it to her husband, it brings back unpleasant memories for him, so she donates it to a charity bazaar. When Edgar Draque Leon Ames offers Nora a large sum for the painting, Nick wonders why it is so valuable. Nick learns that Draques wife Helena Helen Vinson bought the artwork, but she is knocked out and the painting disappears. Nick discovers that Crazy Mary is Bertons mother and goes to see her, only to come across her lifeless body. Nick and Noras dog Asta finds the painting in her shack. ........

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