The Thin Man

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Title: The Thin Man
Year: 1934
Length: 91 minutes
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Writers: Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy
With: Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton
Music: William Axt
Cinematography: James Wong Howe
Editing: Robert Kern
Oscars: nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor (Powell)
I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), a couple days ago
Synopsis: wise-cracking alcoholics solve a mystery

My reaction
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Acting: I've got to take a point off for some awfulness from minor supporting characters.
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Subjective Rating: 7/10 8/10 (Good Great, 4/4). I should have loved it. Delightful. I loved the book, and Powell and Loy are just as perfect as Nick and Nora as everyone says they are. But those two - both the actors and the characters - are really all that make this exceptional, and there is a frustrating lot of movie in which they're not around (every bit of which is superfluous, since the book is written from Nick's perspective).
Objective Rating (Average): 3.3/4