The last Thin Man, with Powell and Loy are Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Philip Reed, Patricia Morison, Leon Ames and Gloria Grahame.
The Beat Generation dialogue is strewn with such nonsense as "The rooty-toots and the bobby-soxers are verboten" and "The dust don't start rising till deuce o'bells".
It was written by Steve Fisher and Nat Perrin, with additional dialogue by James O'Hanlon and Harry Crane, from a story by Stanley Roberts - yeah. Even Dashiell Hammett didn't care any more (and as an aside, after being jailed in 1951 for refusing to answer HUAC questions, he was given a back tax bill for $111,000 - what a bunch of bastards. Well, I suppose if he did really owe $111,000.. It's just the timing sounds mighty suspicious...)
Handsomely photographed by Charles Rosher. Woody Van Dyke had died in 1943.
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