SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941) **1/2 Never recaptures the sense of allegorical possibility of the opening scene where a little boy in an Army dress uniform is on a leash. Forties brownstone debonaire clear hard alcohol atmospheric. Speaking of which William Powell always has a little cocktail, while Myrna Loy has none. She compensates by wearing hats that would suggest that she permanently blew out some aesthetic sensatory valves in one of the previous Thin Man sagas. A lot of unintentionally funny period slang and exclamations.
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