Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015
Little Art Theatre
Retro Matinee
(1:30pm) – Retro Matinee – “The Thin Man” – 1934 film with William Powell, Myrna Loy. Story line – Nick & Nora Charles, a former detective and his rich, playful wife, investigate a murder case mostly for the fun of it. Rated 8.2 on IMDB.

Nick Charles (William Powell), a retired detective, and his wife Nora (Myrna Loy) are attempting to settle down. They are based in Los Angeles but decide to spend the Christmas holidays in New York. There he is pressed back into service by a young woman whose father, an old friend of Nick’s, has disappeared after a murder. The friend, Clyde Wynant (the eponymous “thin man”), has mysteriously vanished. When his former secretary and love interest, Julia Wolf, is found dead, evidence points to Wynant as the prime suspect, but his daughter Dorothy (Maureen O’Sullivan) refuses to believe that her father is guilty. She convinces Nick to take the case, much to the amusement of his socialite wife.