What is The Thin Man / Hide-Out about?

THE THIN MAN, 1934, Warner Bros., 93 min, USA. Adapting the Dashiell Hammett novel, W.S. Van Dyke helms the first and best in what was to become one of MGM’s most successful franchises of the 1930s. William Powell and Myrna Loy are transcendentally flighty as the carefree rich couple Nick and Nora Charles - a wise-cracking, hard-drinking detective and his heiress wife, a gal who aspires to fight crime, too. Their partying lifestyle is interrupted when friend Dorothy Wynant asks them to help find her father, an inventor who has been missing for three months. HIDE-OUT, 1934, Warner Bros., 81 min, USA. Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. On the lam from the cops, ladies man and racketeer Jack “Lucky” Wilson is wounded by a bullet and taken in by a farmer. Lucky stays on with the chickens and roosters while the police unsuccessfully look for him. But when Lucky meets and falls for the farmer’s daughter, he must reconcile his double life so that he can be with the woman he loves.

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What is The Thin Man / Hide-Out about?: THE THIN MAN, 1934, Warner Bros., 93 min, USA. Adapting the Dashiell Hammett novel, W.S. Van Dyke helms the first and best in what was to become one of MGM’s most successful franchises of the 1930s. William Powell and Myrna Loy are transcendentally flighty as the carefree rich couple Nick and Nora Charles - a wise-cracking, hard-drinking detective and his heiress wife, a gal who aspires to fight crime, too. Their partying lifestyle is interrupted when friend Dorothy Wynant asks them to help find her father, an inventor who has been missing for three months.
HIDE-OUT, 1934, Warner Bros., 81 min, USA. Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. On the lam from the cops, ladies man and racketeer Jack “Lucky” Wilson is wounded by a bullet and taken in by a farmer. Lucky stays on with the chickens and roosters while the police unsuccessfully look for him. But when Lucky meets and falls for the farmer’s daughter, he must reconcile his double life so that he can be with the woman he loves.