The Thin Man Goes Home The Thin Man Goes Home The Thin Man Goes Home is a 1945 film directed by Richard Thorpe. It is the fifth of the six "Thin Man" films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's dapper ex-private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora. This entry in "The Thin Man" series was the first not directed by W.S. Van Dyke, who had died in 1943. Nick and Nora visit Nick's parents (Lucile Watson and Harry Davenport) in Nick's hometown, Sycamore Springs, in New England. The residents are convinced that Nick is in town on an investigation, despite Nick's
The Thin Man (film) back into service by Dorothy Wynant (Maureen O'Sullivan), a young woman whose father was an old client of Nick. The man, Clyde Wynant (the title's "thin man"), was supposed to be on a secret business trip and promised to be home before his daughter's wedding, but has mysteriously vanished. She convinces Nick to take the case, much to the amusement of his socialite wife. It starts out as a missing person case, but when Julia Wolf, Wynant's former secretary and love interest, is found dead, evidence points to Wynant as the prime suspect. Dorothy refuses to believe that her father