mmallon4 I was left in a state of despair after watching Tom, Dick and Harry. The fact that a Ginger Rogers film could be this shockingly below par. It's not just a forgettable, run of the mill film. Heck, I wish I could call it mediocre. Tom, Dick and Harry is horrifyingly bad.Although the opening title is creative, it all goes downhill from there. For starters there is a "joke" early during the film, in which Phil Silvers asks Rogers if she wants some ice cream, he mentions a variety of flavours, Rogers mentions he forgot one, Silver's denies it. Once he leaves, Rogers say to her date that he forgot to say pistachio. Several minutes later Silvers returns just to mention he forgot Pistachio. I don't get it, what's the punch line!? Rest assured my laugh count by the end of the film was a total of 0.Let's move onto the most awful thing about Tom, Dick and Harry. I am talking about the film's dream sequences. They sound like an interesting idea on paper but good lord, are they terrifying! I rarely find any movie scary, weather classified as horror or not but never have I been so close to wanting the literally hide behind the couch. The most terrifying thing about these sequences are the adults dressed as babies, miniaturised and superimposed in the scenes. The Exorcist? Rosemary's Baby? Phhh , please. Those adults dressed as babies is where it's at when it comes to the stuff nightmares are made of. Was David Lynch inspired by this film? It's like something straight out of Eraserhead. Every time one of these dream sequences was about to start I was pleading with the movie, "please not another one!". This was the last thing I was expecting from a 1940's movie with such an innocent, carefree title.I can assure you that I'm not exaggerating when I call Tom, Dick and Harry one of the absolute worst films I've seen from Hollywood's golden age. After finishing the film I had to watch something else in order to help get it of my mind, not only because it's a terrible film starring my beloved Ginger Rogers but because those dream sequences will give me my own horrible nightmares (Just for the record the film I watched was Lonely are the Brave starring Kirk Douglas, which did the trick). I'd imagine after winning an Oscar for Kitty Foyle, Ginger Rogers would have had all sorts of film offers going her way. Heck, she turned down Ball of Fire and instead appeared in this. I don't even like thinking about it. Thankfully the following year she stared in The Major and the Minor, so all is forgiven.

thrashneon I really enjoyed this... ... but I may be biased, because I'm a HUGE Ginger Rogers fan. I can't take my eyes off her whenever she's on the screen.Ginger positively smolders in this one. Some of the reviews kind of criticize the "ditzy" or "childish" portrayal of her character in this film... but as I watched, I kept thinking that her character wasn't as shallow as she would have the audience believe - perhaps I based this on Ginger's other performances (and I *did* keep expecting her to start cracking wise).I had to double check the date of this film a few times as I watched.. some elements definitely seemed ahead of their time for 1941.I thought the chemistry/dialog between George Murphy and Ginger was quite good.I thought the chemistry/dialog between Burgess Meredith and Ginger was fantastic. Seems like Burgess Meredith's character could've been a prototype beatnik... in 1941.Not so great with Alan Marshal.. probably because there was less of it, and most of that was with a drunk Janie (which I think Ginger performed quite well, btw).I laughed out loud during the scene where Janie is getting ready for her date with Harry ... Pop: "What are you going to do for shoes?" ... and Harry's scene with Butch. The whole scene could've been out of a 50's sitcom.Overall, I found it quite entertaining and was enchanted by Ginger's performance. I've saved it on my DVR for repeat viewings.

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.

bjon Ginger Rogers had that combination of dinginess and likability in this film. Only "The Major and the Minor" may rival this one. She certainly could turn on the charm.Another interesting note about this one is that Burgess Meredith, who always tended to be typecast as somebody love-ably, slightly (depending on the film) unstable, managed to garner a bit of sex appeal in this one, and given the idea that he was the nonconformist in this film, he actually does live up to his usual reputation. The sex appeal was a rarity for him, but that's not badmouthing him at all about his "stage" presence. He was great in just about everything, and who could forget that voice?I wish I could purchase this one!