Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thin Man Goes Home (M.G.M.) and Having Wonderful Crime (RKO-Radio) both proceed on the safe assumption that laughs and murders combined are usually better boxoffice than either commodity marketed separately...
...Thin Man William Powell, an old and expert hand at this sort of thing, has done it four times before. This time he once more has the able help of his original partner, lynx-eyed Myrna Loy, back in films after four years' absence. There is also, of course, the bottlebrushy terrier Asta, who must, unless like Hitler he is two other dogs, richly qualify by now for M.G.M.'s munificent old-age benefits. The fifth time around, the three of them still guarantee a pleasant excuse for putting off household repairs and serious reading...
Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...
Louise Randall (Rosalind Russell), a woman energetically eager to skate across the thin ice of feminine emancipation, was too much for her old-fashioned first husband (Donald Woods). When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation...
...battle of Manila had just begun; its deepening pall was still only a thin haze over the city. On the north side of the town, where troops of the 37th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were still hunting out Jap snipers, a command car whisked across the city limits, pulled up near a command post. Within a few minutes the word had gone down to the lowest ranks; "It's MacArthur!" Douglas MacArthur had lost no time getting back to the capital he had evacuated on Christmas Eve 1941, after declaring it an open city to save it from...