I showed Steve The Thin Man for the first time the other day, and he found it charming. Though he too was amazed in retrospect that neither NIck nor Nora had keeled over and died of alcohol poisoning by the time the credits rolled--like smoking in labs, this is the sort of background radiation films today just don't have anymore. I can't say they're the poorer for it, but it'd be a nifty Watsonian out for dumb character decisions, not that Nick and Nora necessarily make many of them.