Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Thin Man is a media franchise featuring detective characters Nick and Nora Charles based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The franchise includes six theatrical films, one radio series, and one television series.
The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles , a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter.
"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project. Its development was abandoned in 1944 after it was discovered that the spontaneous fission rate of nuclear reactor -bred plutonium was too high for use in a gun-type design due to the high ...
The Thin Man, a 1933 mystery novel by Dashiell Hammett, also a character in the novel The Thin Man (1934), based on the novel The Thin Man (film series) six films featuring Nick and Nora Charles; The Thin Man (1957–1959), an NBC TV series based on the novel; The Thin Man, a character in the 1927 German expressionist film Metropolis
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (NBC, 1980) – made-for-television docudrama about the Army Air Force B-29 unit that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Fail-Safe (1964) – a film based on the novel of the same name about an American bomber crew and nuclear tensions
Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Related: Iconic photos from WWII:
In the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, there is a map named Nuketown in which a nuclear bomb goes off in the background when a round ends. Additionally, in the first game's singleplayer story, the USA is under the threat of a national attack from a German-Soviet chemical called "Nova 6", a green nerve toxin ...
Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. [1] Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows.