10 Movie Sequels Whose Titles No Longer Made Sense

10. The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man is a novel from Maltese Falcon author Dashiell Hammett in which a pair of high functioning alcoholics bicker constantly and yet remain one of the more endearing presentations of a married couple in literature, all while solving a murder mystery in which a large set of clothes conceals a skinny victim. A film was made in 1934 starring William Powell and Myrna Loy and its jaunty, lighthearted attitude to death and constant drinking made it an enduring hit with film fans. The book had no sequels, but the film sure did. Five, to be precise. Of course, the titular thin man was long since dead, that was kind of the point of the first film, so what to call it? After The Thin Man was a fairly logical option for the second installment. After all, the story takes up after the Thin Man case. The following episode, Another Thin Man, was slightly less logically named but victim C. Aubrey Smith was pretty skinny. Shadow Of The Thin Man, the fourth film, features no literal or metaphorical shadow cast by any of the previous slender victims, but it's The Thin Man Goes Home that really confuses the issue. Obviously the corpse of a murder victim in a film made eight years earlier has only "gone home" in the permanent sense, so this thin man must refer to someone else. Imagining Powell's Nick Charles is the Thin Man makes sense of this title, but not some of the others. Imagining the victim in the first film is the Thin Man makes sense of the early titles, but not this one. Either way some of the titles don't line up with the others.