Your Turn: Nick and Nora Charles

From The Thin Man
Book by Dashiell Hammett
Films 1-4 directed by W.S. Van Dyke, later Richard Thorpe (The Thin Man Goes Home), and followed by Edward Buzzell (Song of the Thin Man)
Nominated by Petar Lazic

I have never loved a pair of alcoholics more than I love Nick and Nora. There is something about them, their charm, their wit, their playful but thorough love for each other, that, to my mind, puts them among the great couples in literary history: Helen and Paris, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliette, Catherine and Heathcliff, Rhett and Scarlett. And of all of these, they are the only couple I'd actually like to spend time with.

If I could add one more, I'd say I'd like to spend my nights with Nick and Nora, but my days with Helen and James Herriot of the All Creatures Great and Small stories. Of course that doesn't leave much room for sleep, but you only live once.

Tags: Comedy | Detectives | Movies

8:10 AM ET | 01-15-2008 | permalink

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