An Inventor is gone for a planned trip. He promised to attend his daughter's wedding before Christmas. As he didn't show up for a long time, his daughter is suspicious. Coincidentally, she meets a former detective and their family friend, Nick Charles. She asks him to find where her father was. Nick was retired from his job and enjoys the countless wealth of his wife's dead father. he has no interest in returning to his detective job. Suddenly, the came to know that the Investor is back. But, he was suspected for the murder of his secretary. Everyone thinks that the Detective is taken up the case, and everyone bothers him about it. Later, for fun sake, just out of his wife's curiosity, he decides to investigate the case.It's really interesting crime thriller with a lot to laugh. There is nothing slapstick. The characterization and actors performance made it a really enjoyable movie ever. Mr & Mrs Nick makes it a really worth watch movie. Hats off to William Powell and Myrna Loy.The movie was shot just in about two weeks with a very limited budget, but the result was amazing, the movie became a block buster as well as a classic.A must watch movie. Highly recommended.#KiduMovie

I'm not sure Dashiell Hammet's depiction of Nick and Nora is as boozy as the movie, but it doesn't matter. William Powell and Myrna Loy have some of the greatest chemistry of any duo in film history. Having grown up with an alcoholic, it takes some resilience for me to overlook the way that ninety percent of the movie involves guzzling liquor. That said, we never see a debilitating effect. They are perpetually joyful. He is suave and she is gorgeous. In addition to the way the two interact, this has a great plot and some of the most memorable character actors of the time. Nick has decided that since Nora has more money that one can really deal with in a lifetime, he decides to retire from being a detective. She, on the other hand, longs form adventure. We know, of course, that he is not going to stay away from the case of the wealthy missing man for long. One of the really hilarious scenes is a dinner party where Nick is going to announce who the murderer is, but in an almost Marx Brothers way, it goes on forever, each guest staining at the bit.

Nick Charles (William Powell) is a former detective who returns to NYC with his new wife Nora (Myrna Loy) and their dog Asta after 4 years in California. He's happily retired after Nora's father left them a fortune. His friend inventor Clyde Wynant has mysteriously disappeared after he confronts his secretary Julia Wolf about $50k in missing bonds. Clyde's ex-wife Mimi (Minna Gombell) is looking for more money but finds a dead Julia Wolf instead. Clyde becomes the prime suspect. Clyde's daughter Dorothy (Maureen O'Sullivan) refuses to believe it. Nora convinces Nick to take the case after gangster Joe Morelli barges in on them.William Powell and Myrna Loy are terrific together. Their dialog is quick and snappy. It's loads of fun. If anything, this movie needs more of them. That's my only complaint. The movie takes too long to get to them as it concentrates on Wynant and the murder. The murder mystery works well but not necessarily anything original. This is simply a fun couple and the movie is best with both of them on the screen.

This is the movie that made up the starting point for one of the most famous (even though not very long compared to others: it consists of only 6 movies), and most popular even today crime movie series: "The Thin Man". Shot originally as a B movie, with a comparable modest budget for MGM standards, and with the two protagonists for the first time working together, it was an immediate smash hit - and marked the beginning for one of the most beloved screen couples; and certainly THE most beloved of the non-married in real life ones! William Powell was already an 'old hand' at crime, coming freshly from his "Philo Vance" series success; while Myrna Loy had been playing more in melodramas up to then - but director W.S. van Dyke, who personally chose her for the role, was convinced that she had a GREAT sense of humor as well. And how right he was...Nick Charles is a former 'tough guy' style private dick from New York (although there's not too much left of the original character that Dashiell Hammett had created in the novel which had just been released a few months earlier), who 'married money' (as he himself ironically points out from time to time, much to his wife's chagrin) in the shape of Nora, the daughter of a rich businessman, who nevertheless is a perfect match for him: she loves adventure and crime and doesn't get scared easily - and most of all, she drinks almost as much as Nick himself... The movie was released just a little while after the end of the Prohibition, and so of course everybody could relish in excessive drinking parties even in an MGM movie, where they had always been rather careful about this subject as long as alcohol had been prohibited (in the novel, the story is set during the Prohibition days, and so Nick and Nora are of course often found in speakeasies, ignoring the law...); and the easing off of the horrible social effects of the Depression also shows in a generally carefree, almost childishly funny party atmosphere throughout the movie - even in the middle of a dark, mysterious murder case...Clyde Wynant, an eccentric inventor, has vanished all of a sudden; while his secretary and former lover Julia, who had stolen the bonds he had intended to give to his daughter for her wedding, is found dead in her apartment. So, of course, everybody's searching for Wynant, who is described as the 'thin man with white hair' (hence the title), as the murderer (soon double murderer, when a slimy little informer gets bumped off as well) - and of course, there's a whole bunch of suspects to choose from: Wynant's ex-wife, who also happened to find Julia's body, his lawyer, Julia's boyfriend, the informer's girl, the ex-wife's new lover... And Nick and Nora, the certainly most unusual (on-screen) married couple of the time, drink and party themselves through the case, accompanied by their terrier Asta, and more than once getting in real danger themselves - until Nick, with his cleverness and talent for improvisation, finally reveals the culprit at a hilariously funny and at the same time extremely suspenseful 'murder solving dinner', with all the suspects sitting at the same table! The enormous success of the movie, which so elegantly combines light comedy with tough murders, led to a whole series of films which always used the title of the original one (although it doesn't actually refer to Nick Charles, like many people believe today) - and are until today, and with FULL justification, ranking among the most popular and beloved by a wide audience classic crime comedies of all times!