clark gable play a really sweet and care guy who just happen to be a top mobster and cold blood killer . william powell and less than month before his first appearance a wealthy gumshoe nick charles in the thin man and be the uncorruptible manhattan da who save gable life when they be kid . and myrna loy and less than a month before she first appear a wealthy gumshoe ette nora charles and be the woman who love them both . gable find himself in a quandary represent should he let old buddy powell lose the big election over a dirty lie . or should he risk the chair to help him . decision and decision . how time have change represent a chiseler who borrow a bundle from gable pleads and i thought i could pay and blackie . but i ain not get the dough . please lem me have just a little more time . a couple more day . gable snarl and i will give you more time . you get two month . you will pay then . or else . wow . two month with no penalty . you can not a get a deal like that from your own bank . that the kind of movie this be . so how can it be as good a it be . gable and loy and and powell . like so many old time star and g and p learn early on how to play just one character each ( let call them rhett and nick ) and they play them to perfection till they quit make movie . loy be a little more flexible ( check out the best year of our life ) and but here she be and nora charles before nora be even bear . nat pendleton play one of his trademark goon and and in a small role the harlowesque muriel evans shine and almost literally and a tootsie .