Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Aryana Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

tavm Just watched this touching and musically entertaining Bing Crosby movie on YouTube. In this one, Bing's a released prisoner who's promised a condemned man to give a note to a family named Smith. That turns out to be a grandpa (Donald Meek) with a granddaughter named Patsy (Edith Fellows). I'll stop there and just say that this movie provides both enough compelling drama and light comedy to be worthy of the length it takes to get to the fitting conclusion. And the songs are good enough to get one humming though the highlight is one done by the great Satchmo-Louis Armstrong-who provides a rollicking tune called "Skeleton in the Closet" that provides a fun thrill on its own. There's also a female orphanage rep (Madge Evans) who becomes a potential love interest for Bing. Really, Pennies from Heaven is just a dandy fine picture that should make you a fan of Crosby's music if you're not already. P.S. This movie has a couple of Our Gang/Little Rascals connections: Ms. Fellows appeared in a couple of their shorts-Birthday Blues and Mush and Milk. And while this movie was being shot, then-current members Spanky, Darla, Buckwheat, and of course Alfalfa shared a song with Crosby and Ms. Fellows on set which I found out when I saw a picture of them in the book "The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang" by Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann. The other connection was Mickey Daniels-he plays a Hay Wagon Driver that takes Bing, Patsy, and her grandfather to the "haunted house"-who was one of the original members when the series started in 1922.

drednm Pleasant if meandering Bing Crosby vehicle casts him as a man unjustly jailed who is given a note to deliver by a condemned man. Out of prison, he tracks down the Smith family in New Jersey and discovers a lonely girl (Edith Fellows) who lives with her destitute grandfather (Donald Meek). On opening the note they realize the condemned man has left them a house. Crosby ambles along with them and becomes part of the family, much to the dismay of a nosy social worker (Madge Evans). Somehow it is decided that they will open a restaurant in the house and thus provide a steady income to satisfy the social worker. No one seems unduly concerned about school or the fact that a total stranger has moved into the household.Not a lot of logic here but Crosby and Fellows are quite good. Evans seems a little ill at ease with her character. Meek is always good. Louis Armstrong shows up as a chicken thief and bandleader/singer at the restaurant. Nana Bryant is another social worker. George Chandler is a harried waiter. Nydia Westman has a nice scene as a maid with Crosby. Harry Tyler is the cheating ring-toss man, and Tom Dugan plays daredevil manager. Not a great film but it has a few pleasant songs, including the title number, and Crosby continues his screen persona of easy-going and decent. Fellows is quite good as the sometimes bratty girl. Evans is very pretty--too bad she did get better films and parts.

Nazi_Fighter_David In one film of the period, made away from Paramount at Columbia, Crosby changed for the better his devil-may-care attitude long enough to help a down-and-out family… "Pennies from Heaven" cast him as a friendly vagabond, released from prison after being convicted on a false charge…He befriends the daughter (Edith Fellows) and father (Donald Meek) of an executed murderer, setting them up in a ramshackle mansion that he turns into a profitable café… Sentimental and curiously melancholic, the film was one of the very few Crosby movies to acknowledge the Depression

willrams I was ten years old and this was one of Bing Crosby's earliest films. Oh how I used to enjoy all his films! I believe this is the first film he did with the great Louis Armstrong. What a joy and thrill to all that great music; same for Birth of the Blues.