TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Alex da Silva Ginger Rogers (Janie) has a steady boyfriend in salesman George Murphy (Tom). He's a salesman that loves his job of ripping people off. This personality type still exists today and we sometimes use the collective noun "arsehole" to describe these people. He proposes to her and she accepts. However, she meets Burgess Meredith (Harry) and goes on a date with him thinking that he is rich. He isn't but she also manages to become engaged once more. She's now engaged to 2 men - what is she to do? Well, she goes and gets herself engaged to a 3rd man of course - Alan Marshal (Dick). He's a millionaire and a bit dull if you ask me. Anyway, Ginger Rogers now has to come to a decision and pick one of these three contenders.......who will it be...? Unfortunately, this film is boring. There are flashes of humour, eg, the scene building up to the point where Murphy drops Meredith and Rogers off at a 'Lover's Lane' having just discovered that he's being cheated on, and the occasional line of dialogue as delivered by Meredith and Marshall is quite funny, eg, Meredith displaying complete joy at losing his job. Another amusing moment occurs when Meredith discovers that although a car that he is looking at is priced at $598, it will actually cost him $1,107 if he wants to buy it. Nothing different to today's deals then.The cast are OK but we get an irritating Phil Silvers (Phil) as an ice-cream seller who proudly plays his obnoxious self and Lenore Lonergan (Butch) who plays Ginger's younger sister in that typically unfunny 'younger sister knows best' style of comedy.You will want to know who Ginger picks so there is a slight degree of tension to the ending and it ends well. However, most of the story is just blurb and uninteresting with annoying dream-like segments that drag on.

Mary Anne Landers In the mood for a fun romantic comedy? I recommend "Tom, Dick, and Harry", a golden oldie released by RKO back in 1941.Janie, a blue-collar chick played by Ginger Rogers, can't decide which guy she wants to marry. And in the course of the story, she has "an understanding" with each of the three title characters. Tom is an ambitious white-collar car salesman (George Murphy); Dick is a millionaire playboy (Alan Marshal); and Harry is a bohemian mechanic (Burgess Meredith).In amusing dream sequences, Janie imagines what it would be like to be married to each of them. And in one envelope-pushing scene that must have just barely gotten past the censors, she imagines what it would be like to be married to all of them! If this storyline turned up in a romantic film or novel nowadays, the heroine would obviously have to end up with Dick. But this movie was made in the 1940s. Therefore none of her three suitors is her inevitable choice. And the film demonstrates wonderfully how the heart knows best, even if it can be full of surprises.

edwagreen Dismal film with Ginger Rogers acting almost churlish in far too many scenes. Romanced by 3 guys, including Burgess Meredith in a rare comedy performance and the always reliable future Sen. George Murphy, in a totally non-singing and dance part. Come to think of it, Ginger doesn't sing or dance here either.The film is silly at best and the dream sequences are even worse as Ginger sees the negative side of marrying any of these 3 guys who have all proposed marriage to her.Given the choice between 2 poor guys and a wealthy one, it's not necessarily how you think the film will end is correct. Yes, the film tries to show love among different social strata, but it's ridiculous at best.

bkoganbing Paul Jarrico's delightful and original script won a deserved Academy Award nomination for Tom, Dick and Harry. It's a story about young Ginger Rogers who in her search for the perfect mate manages to get herself engaged to three men with the aforementioned names.Ginger Rogers was probably at the height of her career, just coming off her Academy Award winning performance in Kitty Foyle the previous year. This film is a good followup to that award winner. The men Ginger gets involved with are from all the strata of society.First there's hard working car salesman George Murphy who loves Ginger well enough, but won't let anything stand in his way of rising to the top and making an extra buck.Then we have bohemian Burgess Meredith, a happy go lucky garage mechanic who wants nothing more than enough money to keep the rent paid and food on the table. He's a cheap date as Ginger finds out, in fact the best scene in the film is him teaching her about bowling. It's on par with novice fisherman William Powell in Libeled Lady.In fact Ginger only meets Meredith because he happens to be delivering a very expensive automobile to millionaire Alan Marshal. But eventually Ginger contrives to meet the real Marshal and as she says, he's all she or any red blooded American girl dreams about.There are some nice fantasy sequences where Ginger imagines married life with all three of these guys and one where she dreams of the forbidden polyandry with them all. That one was kind of skirting the Almighty Code.Garson Kannin directs a very charming cast in this four sided triangle. Who does Rogers wind up with? No giveaways here, but here's a tip. It's the one who rings her chimes.