The Thin Man
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Extra, extra, read all about it! Host Mikayla Daniels talks The Thin Man on this weeks web extra.
Host Mikayla Daniels looks at the franchise The Thin Man created after it's initial success. We also learn a bit about how film trailers got their start.
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Welcome to my web comments on the Saturday Night Cinema broadcasts of “The Thin Man” from 1934.
I'm Mikayla Daniels here to share a bit more about the film.
This film was the first in a franchise based on the novel of the same name written by Dashiell Hammett.
The franchise includes six theatrical films, one radio series, and one television series.
Additionally, it has been reimagined for the stage through a musical and various plays.
The last of the films was “Song Of The Thin Man”, which was released in 1947.
There was also a TV series that ran from 1957 to 1959, and a TV movie called “Nick and Nora”, which in 1975 aired on ABC as part of the network's “Wide World of Mystery” programing block.
In October of 2010, it was announced that Johnny Depp was developing a new adaptation of The Thin Man for Warner Brothers through his Infinitum Nihil production company.
Rob Marshall was negotiating to direct when screenwriter Jerry Stahl joined the project in March of 2011.
However, David Cobb came on board to write the script that August after creative differences between Cobb and Marshall.
Billy Ray was tapped to write the screenplay, but Warner Brothers never actually greenlit the film, and it was eventually shelved as Marshall entered production on “Into the Woods” 2014.
In October of 2023, Lucky Chap Entertainment and Plan B Entertainment were in talks to co-produce a remake of The Thin Man.
When The Thin Man was released on May 25th of 1934.
It was two overwhelmingly positive reviews, with special praise for the chemistry between Loy and Powell.
A review from Variety reported that, “The Thin Man was an entertaining novel, and now it's an entertaining picture.
For its leads, the studio couldn't have done better than to pick Powell and Miss Loy, both of whom shade their semi comic roles beautifully.” While we're all familiar with seeing film trailers today.
Did you ever stop to think about if early films had trailers?
Film trailers were conceived in 1913 by Nils Granlund, the advertising manager of Marcus Lowe Theaters, when he spliced together rehearsal footage of “The Pleasure Seekers”, a Broadway play at the time, into a mini promotional montage that trailed after films shown at Lowes theaters.
For this movie, the trailer contained specially filmed footage in which Nick Charles is seen on the cover of the Dashiell Hammett novel The Thin Man.
Nick Charles then steps out of the cover to talk to fellow detective Philo Vance about his latest case.
Charles mentions he hasn't seen Vance since the Kendall murder case, a film in which Powell played Vance, released in October of 1933, just seven months prior to the release of the Thin Man.
Charles goes on to explain to Vance that his latest case revolves around a “tall, thin man”, just before clips of the film are shown.
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