William Powell and Myrna Loy, the most formidable of all screen couples of Classic Hollywood, have firmly established their stardom by playing Nick and Nora Charles, protagonists of 1934 crime comedy *The Thin Man*. Immense success of that film led to inevitable 1936 sequel *After the Thin Man*, directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Dashiel Hammett, famous crime fiction author whose eponymous novel served as basis for the fir…







