This is the direct sequel (the first of five) to The Thin Man. It's not quite as good a mystery as the original but it has all of the humor and sparkling performances from William Powell and Myrna Loy. Nick and Nora Charles are home in San Francisco for New Year's when they hear that Nora's cousin Selma's husband has disappeared. They track the wastrel down to the Lychee Club to try and get him to go back to his wife but he blows them off. Later that evening, however, he ends up dead. A number of people had it in for this guy, especially Selma (Elissa Landi). Finding his killer among all the suspects is no picnic for Nick, since it means dealing with Nora's moneyed relatives who had their own reasons for wanting him gone.
Again, the costumes in this movie are fantastic and if I ever got to be super-rich I'd have replicas made.
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