Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
- husband wife relationship
- police
- detective
- mistress
- dinner
- black and white
- wedding
- dog
- police detective
- screwball comedy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Powell
Nick Charles
Myrna Loy
Nora Charles
Maureen O'Sullivan
Dorothy Wynant
Nat Pendleton
Inspector Guild
- Minna Gombell — Mimi Wynant
- Porter Hall — Herbert MacCaulay
- Henry Wadsworth — Tommy
- William Henry — Gilbert Wynant
- Harold Huber — Arthur Nunheim
- Cesar Romero — Chris Jorgenson
- Natalie Moorhead — Julia Wolf
- Edward Brophy — Joe Morelli
- Edward Ellis — Clyde Wynant
- Cyril Thornton — Tanner
- William Augustin — Wynant's Butler (uncredited)
- Directed
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Written
- Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 545 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1934 · You’re hereThe Thin Man
Where it starts.
After the Thin Man
1936
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
