Elswet
Ridiculous hats, less of the baby, and more of the Nick and Nora we all love. But this time, the chemistry is better than the previous installment. The story is more rich, although there is no danger of rivaling the first two installments, this one is a far cry closer than the preceding installment.In the 1930's-1940's, one must expect the mob to be the antagonist somewhere in the story, but Nick's entire repertoire of friends includes nothing but shill-men, hucksters, and con jobs, so they're also protagonists, which serves to twist the story somewhat, and makes for an interesting mystery.All in all? This one is closer to The Thin Man than Another Thin Man, and runs beautifully back to back throughout the franchise. I wholly enjoy this work, and advocate it as an anytime movie, and Nick seems to have joined AA. Way to go Nick! It rates a 7.9/10 from...the Fiend :.
MartinHafer
This is the fourth of the THIN MAN movies. As you would expect, the earliest of these movies are the best, as the originality of the series began to wane by the 4th movie. Regardless, it's still high quality series entertainment and is well worth watching. Unfortunately, in addition to being less "fresh", the witty dialog also seems a little less witty--I just didn't laugh as much with this outing as the others--even the later episodes. So the final verdict is that this is a decent but not great entry in the series. If you haven't seen the first ones, see them first. If you see this one first, the movies might seem just a bit mediocre--bear with it they are wonderfully fun movies.
kyle_furr
Out of the five thin man movies I've seen, this one is the worst, it was worse than the first one and i haven't seen the last one yet. This movie is just too involved in the murder mystery that i didn't care about in the least bit. It would of been much better if they had a lot more humor in it because they hardly had any this time. Some of the best scenes have to do with their kid like the scene in the park and at the dinner table and after that you hardly ever saw him. The plot has something to do with a murder at a race track and the guy who was killed was about to testify in trial against somebody. Pretty soon, a newspaper man is killed and another newspaper man is framed but you just don't care who was killed or who the murderer was.
estabansmythe
This fourth of the six Thin Man movies is one of the most fun, most enjoyable. Powell and Loy are terrific, as always, and Donna Reed is beautiful in an early role. But it's Sam Levine as police Lt Abrams who steals the show. It's murder at the race track. Who killed the jockey? See it and find out. And enjoy!
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