Pun Salad

From the title, Another Thin Man, you might think that the filmmakers were getting a little tired of their creation. Would anyone today do that? Another Indiana Jones? Another Transformers?

But it's only the third entry in the series, and they went on to make three more. And this one is pretty good. To keep things interesting, Nick and Nora have had a (human) baby, Nickie Junior, and he's peripherally involved in the plot.

Nick and Nora are called out to the Long Island estate of wealthy Colonel Burr MacFay, played by professional Pompous Old Fart, C. Aubrey Smith. He announces that someone's out to kill him, but it's masked by other paranoid ravings and general obnoxiousness, irritating everyone. He might as well be wearing a nametag: "Hi! I'm this movie's victim!"

As usual, there's a dizzying array of suspects, hoods, socialites, and servants. This was one of the first movies with the immortal Sheldon Leonard, and (unsurprisingly) he's one of the hoods. Also as usual, Nick navigates half-sloshed through the detecting process and unerringly comes up with the correct culprit.

Shemp Howard has a bit part! "Hey, is that Shemp? I think that's Shemp!"