Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

SimonJack "Tom Dick and Harry" is one of the few films I've watched on DVD that I turned off about two-thirds of the way through. I went about doing something else and only returned to the film the next night to finish it. It truly was that boring. I've read the reviews of others. They seem split on liking and disliking this film. Some who enjoyed it saw it as screwball, but it doesn't come close – at least to the definition of screwball. The biggest thing it's missing is the laughter.Some people may have found some warm humor in it because of Ginger Rogers's character, Janie. But where are the funny, witty lines? The script seems devoid of any clever dialog. The plot is simple and had possibilities. But, instead of clever dialog with some snappy and funny lines and situations, it has a plot that simply plods along. The character of Janie seems to be in a trance through most of the film – with considerable alcohol added toward the end.The movie came out in June 1941. Europe was at war but the U.S. hadn't entered it yet. The economy had begun substantial recovery the year before, somewhat due to the war overseas. And, America was just coming out of a long depression and recovering from the Dust Bowl in the Plains States and Southwest. So, some audiences may have liked dreamy, fluffy stuff like this. Perhaps girls and young women enjoyed it most. If so, I doubt that that rapture lasted very long.The only reason I give it four stars is for the cast and the credible performances of all. Rogers was OK in her near constant dreamy state, with few lines of any significance or humor. But this film has to rank toward the bottom of her movie repertoire. Burgess Meredith was good in his role as Harry. George Murphy was very good as Tom, and Alan Marshal was good as Dick. I don't mind movies that are mostly fluff – if they have some entertainment value in music, song, dance or comedy. Unfortunately, "Tom Dick and Harry" has none of these. It's an easy movie to forget.

Neil Doyle TOM DICK AND HARRY gives Ginger Rogers another chance to play an infantile woman (remember THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR, MONKEY BUSINESS and IT HAD TO BE YOU). It's a screwball comedy so it works (to a degree) but she sort of overdoes the job of making this girl a complete dumb-dumb. So, in the end, she makes the right choice when she must choose between three suitors.She has to decide whether to marry a poor, down-on-his-luck bohemian (BURGESS MEREDITH), a wealthy playboy millionaire (ALAN MARSHAL), or a conservative square (GEORGE MURPHY). Considering that she has no brains whatsoever, she chooses--well, you have to see the movie to find out.The cute ending provides an original twist to a decidedly unoriginal story which gets a boost from its personable cast. Rogers is delightful enough when she isn't being a bit irritating with her baby-voiced coyness, and the men are splendid as her bewildered suitors. Alan Marshal is much livelier than usual in his playboy role--so much so that you have to wonder why Hollywood didn't find better roles for him as a romantic lead.Ginger's fans will love this one--but I couldn't help thinking she played it a little too dumb at times.Summing up: A screwball comedy that could have used a brighter script but the dream sequences are well done, thanks to director Garson Canin's way with wacky comedy.

Meghan Rose Tom, Dick, and Harry rests on thin plot - Ginger Rogers' character Janie, a telephone operator, has to choose between her steady (Murphy), a man she just met (Meredith), and a rich man she's been dreaming about (Marshall). The romances between the characters are complimented by outrageous dream sequences that are really just ridiculous, but I found them quite funny. Burgess Meredith and Ginger Rogers share a charming chemistry - especially in a scene where their kiss fantastically "rings bells"...possibly the cutest kiss scene ever, reminiscent of Mia's foot-popping in The Princess Diaries. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and laughed a lot, as should any Rogers fan, or Meredith fan for that matter, would. But, it is hard to find. I don't believe it's been released on DVD yet, but it is a rare find on VHS.

r-winfield "Tom Dick and Harry", a delightful screwball comedy, features Ginger Rogers sans singing and tapping. Rogers is cast as a telephone operator living with family and the eldest of two daughters. At first she seems a bit mature for the role but turns in a good performance as the comedy and surrealistic sequences become increasingly engaging along with the social-commentary subtext of traveling in various social circles to supplement the plot: Rogers on a whirlwind-whim steps out of an unfulfilling job and pursues an ultimate soulmate/marriage/happiness. Some scenes surprisingly echo "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) in an inverted economic pearls-at-a-price manner: after an evening of mayhem lasts into wee-morning hours and before the "life-altering" event, an ultimate awakening dawns upon working-class Rogers similar to high-society Hepburn. Also, similar to TPS, TD&H has the wisecracking-realistic younger sister balancing the impulsive older sister Rogers; the supporting cast delivering the sideshow goods; and viewers getting the surprise-ending treat. Trivial tidbit: Lenore Lonergan, (the younger sister "Butch" to Rogers's "Janie" in TD&H), is cast in the original Broadway version of TPS as the younger sister "Dinah" to Hepburn's "Tracy", (however in the film version of TPS, Virginia Weidler plays the younger sister "Dinah" part).