Manhattan Melodrama

The Thin Man — A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Swing Time — Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry

Shadow of the Thin Man — High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murde

The Roaring Twenties — After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootleggin

The Last Wave — A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths

Life with Father — A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.