This is not my favorite Thin Man. The overt comedy scenes are like something out of a 3 Stooges episode. (Incidentally Shemp Howard appears here.) It does have a terrific joke involving quarantine. And a very strange, slick dance number.
But the dividends just don't pay out in this one. The plot gets tedious at several points. And it feels cheap and claustrophobic. Like a drawing room comedy. The baby storyline is a stretch. The solution is inventive but absurd. No one could have deduced that. Here's the 11th sentence because the applet won't accept my review. Here's the 12th sentence. Here's the 14th sentence. Here's the 15th sentence, at which point the applet would finally take my review.
But the dividends just don't pay out in this one. The plot gets tedious at several points. And it feels cheap and claustrophobic. Like a drawing room comedy. The baby storyline is a stretch. The solution is inventive but absurd. No one could have deduced that. Here's the 11th sentence because the applet won't accept my review. Here's the 12th sentence. Here's the 14th sentence. Here's the 15th sentence, at which point the applet would finally take my review.