Song of the Thin Man (1947) on Netflix
Nick and Nora Charles attend a charity ball aboard Phil Brant's gambling ship, where bandleader Tommy Drake is shot. Phil, newly eloped with Janet Thayar, asks them to help clear his name.
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Nick and Nora Charles attend a charity ball aboard the S.S. Fortune, the gambling ship of Phil Orval Brant, where Tommy Drake's jazz band provides the entertainment. After a set, Drake tells Phil he is quitting the band to tour dance halls booked by Mitchell Talbin, though he owes gangster Al Amboy twelve thousand dollars, and Amboy demands payment that night. Talbin refuses an advance, and Drake slips into Phil's office. Phil has eloped with Janet Thayar against her father David's wishes, and when Phil becomes the prime suspect, he and Janet ask Nick and Nora for help. Nick hands him to the police for safekeeping.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Song of the Thin Man (1947)
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Myrna Loy parted company here: this was the last film she made for the studio. It was also one of only two entries in the series not directed by W. S. Van Dyke, who had died in 1943.
