rko studio decide to borrow both william powell from mgm and jean arthur from columbia and for one of their more big budget effort to cash in on the popularity of the thin man . they succeed to some degree . a lot of folk forget that in addition to and early than nick charles and bill powell also play in a few philo vance film in the title role . so by this time he be pretty well set in the role . doctor bradford be not do a many liquid lunch a nick charles and but the basic blasé nick be still there . one difference be that while nick charles marry an heiress and doctor bradford work for a living a a physician . that help in his avocation of detective and in fact it do in this film . he get two murder to solve . a jockey fall off a horse come into the homestretch of a big race and dy for no apparent reason . the trainer suspect something afoot and but he bump off by the more conventional method of a bullet . this be after he come to bill powell for help . myrna loy be a more steadying influence on bill powell than jean arthur be . arthur play it a more of a dizzy dame than loy do . but it work here and she and powell have good chemistry . the ever dependable james gleason be the police inspector in the sam levene or nat pendleton role . all they need here be asta and possibly eric blore a powell butler be essay that part . if powell and arthur be sign at this studio we might have see a whole slew of bradford film .