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Meurtre en musique

Original title: Song of the Thin Man
  • 1947
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
6.1K
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Myrna Loy, William Powell, Dean Stockwell, and Asta Jr. in Meurtre en musique (1947)
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Nick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to fig... Read allNick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.Nick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.

  • Director
    • Edward Buzzell
  • Writers
    • Steve Fisher
    • Nat Perrin
    • James O'Hanlon
  • Stars
    • William Powell
    • Myrna Loy
    • Keenan Wynn
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
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    POPULARITY
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    • Director
      • Edward Buzzell
    • Writers
      • Steve Fisher
      • Nat Perrin
      • James O'Hanlon
    • Stars
      • William Powell
      • Myrna Loy
      • Keenan Wynn
    • 57User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    William Powell
    William Powell
    • Nick Charles
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Nora Charles
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • Clarence 'Clinker' Krause
    Dean Stockwell
    Dean Stockwell
    • Nick Charles Jr.
    Phillip Reed
    Phillip Reed
    • Tommy Edlon Drake
    • (as Philip Reed)
    Patricia Morison
    Patricia Morison
    • Phyllis Talbin
    Leon Ames
    Leon Ames
    • Mitchell Talbin
    Gloria Grahame
    Gloria Grahame
    • Fran Ledue Page
    Jayne Meadows
    Jayne Meadows
    • Janet Thayar
    Ralph Morgan
    Ralph Morgan
    • David I. Thayar
    Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    • Jessica Thayar
    Don Taylor
    Don Taylor
    • Buddy Hollis
    Warner Anderson
    Warner Anderson
    • Dr. Monolaw
    Bruce Cowling
    Bruce Cowling
    • Phil Orval Brant
    Connie Gilchrist
    Connie Gilchrist
    • Bertha
    Henry Nemo
    • The Neem
    William Bishop
    William Bishop
    • Al Amboy
    Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor
    • Helen Amboy
    • Director
      • Edward Buzzell
    • Writers
      • Steve Fisher
      • Nat Perrin
      • James O'Hanlon
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    6blanche-2

    The last and the least

    It's 1947 and after five entries into the "Thin Man" series, starting in 1934, it's time for a sixth and last one. This may not be the best, but it has a lovely cast consisting of William Powell and Myrna Loy, of course, as well as Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames, Gloria Grahame, Don Taylor, Patricia Morison, Jayne Meadows, Dean Stockwell as little Nicky, and Asta Jr.

    Nora is trying for a higher class of acquaintances in the hopes that Nicky will get to know people besides thieves. At a society dance, the band leader, Tommy Drake (Philip Reed), is killed. The police go after Phil Brant, whom they suspect. The next day, Janet Thayer (Meadows) and Brant (Bruce Cowling), with whom she has just eloped, come to ask for Nick and Nora's help. The police arrive just then, and because Nick believes that Brant's life is in danger, turns him over to the police for his own safety.

    Ass Nick and Nora look into the case, they find out that there are many suspects in Drake's death as he wasn't very popular. Janet's father (Ralph Morgan) couldn't stand him, he owed money to a loan shark (William Bishop), and the clarinetist (Don Taylor) and Drake had an onstage fight. Drake suspected him of having an affair with his girlfriend (Grahame) who sings with the band.

    In an attempt to be hep, Nick attempts to use musician language, and it's funny to hear it coming from him, and Nora tells the institutionalized clarinet player that she's a "canary." Though they were always wonderful together, Powell and Loy just don't have the zip of earlier films; they are, after all, older. Powell is 55, Loy is 42 and lovely, but their routine is tired. The mystery is okay; Dean Stockwell is funny as the incorrigible Nicky, and Asta Jr. has some funny bits.

    You'll enjoy this as long as you don't compare it to the first few. "The Thin Man" started a host of imitators as well as a TV show and Broadway musical. Powell and Loy brought humor and class to the detective genre. This isn't really a fitting end to such an important series.
    6planktonrules

    several notches below the original

    While I enjoyed this final THIN MAN movie, I've gotta admit that it was far less enjoyable than the first few entries in this series. Maybe the actors were getting tired or the writers had writer's block--but the movie just lacked the most important factor for a THIN MAN movie--FUN! Yes, some of the wonderful banter between Nick and Nora was present (particularly when Nora talks "jive"), but only here and there--not nearly as often or as hilarious as in previous films. And, unfortunately, the plot also is pretty convoluted (though I must admit that plot is NOT the primary reason people watched the films--it was the characters). Also, their son, played by Dean Stockwell, was never developed as a character and, Frankly, Nick and Nora seemed like TERRIBLE parents. Oh well, despite all these complaints, it still is a pretty good film--slightly better than average but that's really about all.
    7CCsito

    Not bad, but not great ending to the Thin Man movies

    This is the sixth and last in the series of Thin Man movies with William Powell and Myrna Loy. The plot deals with a night club manager who is murdered after he assaults a trumpet player in a band and two times a girlfriend and well as owe several thousand dollars to another man. Nick and Nora take on the murder case at the request of the girlfriend (Jayne Meadows) of the prime murder suspect. The jilted murder victim's girlfriend (Gloria Grahame) also gets bumped off as well. The movie has some scenes with the son of the Thin Man (played by Dean Stockwell). Keenan Wynn costars as one of the band members (though he is never considered to be a prime suspect). There is still a good chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy in this movie. There are less good one liners that you often heard from the earlier movies in the series though. Asta also has a few good scenes in this movie. William Powell and Myrna Loy appear a bit more tired in this last movie of the series. But I guess that is to be expected as one gets older anyway.
    9kenandraf

    Good mystery comedy

    Good mystery comedy movie that was certainly carried by the lead stars.The production was average and the script was not as good as the previous THIN MAN films.Still delivers the basics of the genre though so if you are a fan of the THIN MAN films or a big fan of comedy mysteries or a big fan of the lead stars here,you will like this movie......
    estabansmythe

    The worst still better than most!

    Did Nick and Nora's swan song, "Song Of The Thin Man," try just a tad too hard to be hip and cool? Yep.

    You know what that means? It means, so what? It means that what many consider the least popular of the Thin Man movie is still better than most.

    For Nick and Nora's final bit of sleuthing and their first in a couple years (since the wonderful Thin Man Goes Home), they enter the ultra-hip, ultra-cool, slanged-out world of jazz, courtesy of their tour guide, reed-man Keenan Wynn, who couldn't put together a sentence of straight Queen's English to save his shoe bottom (soul).

    Who killed the band leader? All I can say is, it wasn't Nick or Nora or Asta.

    By 1947, William Powell's waistline has expanded slightly and Myrna Loy long ago gave up the sheer, slinky gowns that had us all drooling, but they can still cut it, rug and all.

    Were six Thin Man movies enough? Not for me.

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    • Trivia
      The last film for Myrna Loy at MGM, where she had made the majority of her films since the 1930s. In her autobiography she stated this picture was a "lackluster finish to a great series", and that she "hated" it.
    • Goofs
      When the thug on the boat throws the knife at Asta, the string that guides it to it's target in the door is visible.
    • Quotes

      Nick Charles: If the party gets rough, duck.

      Nora Charles: I'm practically under the table now, but not the way I like to be.

    • Connections
      Featured in It's Showtime (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      You're Not So Easy to Forget
      (1947)

      By Herb Magidson and Ben Oakland

      Played during the opening credits, as background music and at the end

      Played by a band on the S.S. Fortune and sung by Gloria Grahame (uncredited) dubbed by Carol Arden (uncredited)

      Played on clarinet by Don Taylor (uncredited) often

      Reprised by Gloria Grahame (uncredited) at the ship reopening and on a record

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    • Release date
      • August 11, 1948 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La ruleta de la muerte
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Budget
      • $1,670,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 26m(86 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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