The Thin Man (film) and Canada and $605,000 elsewhere. It made a profit of $729,000. The trailer contained specially filmed footage in which Nick Charles (William Powell) is seen on the cover of the Dashiell Hammett novel "The Thin Man". Nick Charles then steps out of the cover to talk to fellow detective Philo Vance (also played by Powell) about his latest case. Charles mentions he hasn't seen Vance since "The Kennel Murder Case", a film in which Powell played Vance. "The Kennel Murder Case" was released in October 1933, just seven months prior to the release of "The Thin Man". Charles goes on
The Man Who Finally Died The Man Who Finally Died The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British CinemaScope thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling and Eric Portman. It was based on a 1959 ITV serial. The screenplay concerns a German immigrant to Britain who receives a mysterious phone call telling him his father is not really dead. He returns to Bavaria to investigate the matter. John Burke wrote a novelisation of the screenplay. Joe Newman formerly Joachim Deutsch returns to his small hometown in Bavaria, after living in England since the outbreak of World War