Very well executed

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

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

No need to recap the zany plot. The 2-hours plus comes across more as a comedy of moments than a successful whole. The first part is the best. Lemmon was a perfect actor for white-collar comedy, and those moments when his addled Sam struggles with his ad-agency job amount to a perfect fit. The trouble is the screenplay stretches the clever premise into segments of varying quality. At the same time, it appears director Swift hasn't much feel for comedy that could perhaps finesse the bumpy parts. Then too, I get an impression the stretching was done to promote TV's Connors and Provine, along with French actress Schneider. The two girls are quite charming in their roles. Still, it's really up to Lemmon to furnish the links of amusement, but not all play to his strengths, especially the frantic chase scene. I'm still chuckling, however, over Sam's sleep habits, the ad that can't put anyone in the driver's seat, and a vacuum cleaner with an eye at the top. And , oh yes, that sudden shower door scene every guy longs for. Good also to see veteran trouper Ed Robinson picking up a payday. Anyway, the movie's very much in the upbeat suburban style of the 1950's. Unfortunately, its 1964 release date is swimming against the emerging dark undercurrents of Vietnam. So it probably soon went into cultural eclipse. Nonetheless, the flick's still a chance to catch one our best comedic talents in action. It may not be among his best, but does have its moments.

The kind of fluff that's hard to dislike. Ad-man Jack Lemmon pretends to be married to neighbor Romy Schneider to help her gain an inheritance. Things get goofy when the situation spirals out of control, with Lemmon having to continue the ruse at work to impress a potential new client (Edward G. Robinson). Lemmon was always great at playing the befuddled everyman and he's perfect here. He's well matched with Dorothy Provine as his infinitely patient wife. Schneider is at her peak, extremely vivacious and quite funny. It's a high energy romantic comedy from David Swift (who'd previously directed Lemmon in the equally frothy UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE) with a lot going for it. The performers are top notch and Lemmon's Rube Goldberg-like contraptions are very clever. The supporting cast is hilarious and includes the likes of Neil Hamilton, Louis Nye, Robert Q. Lewis, Mike Conners (as Schneider's ex-husband)and, briefly, the Hi-Los. The high-gloss cinematography is by Burnett Guffey. It's based on a novel by Jack Finney!

When Good Neighbor Sam was released in 1964 Jack Lemmon was being taken seriously as a dramatic actor as well as a light comic actor as witnessed by the rave reviews he got for The Apartment and Days of Wine and Roses. While Good Neighbor Sam doesn't stack up against those two films in Lemmon's career, it's still an amusing and pleasing romp.Have you ever noticed how many films like Good Neighbor Sam start out with a mistaken impression? Through a lie told by Romy Schneider who is the good neighbor that Sam has, people in her life and in his get the impression that they are married. He's married to Dorothy Provine and she's married to Michael Connors. And both for their own reasons have to keep the deception up. All the situations the principal players get into stem from the original white lie.It would be so much easier if everyone told the truth from the gitgo, but then we wouldn't have a movie.Lots of familiar names pop up here in support. Edward Andrews as the unctuous boss of the advertising agency Lemmon works for, Louis Nye as the creative private detective who gets it wrong, and last but not definitely not least Edward G. Robinson as the puritanical dairy king.Minor league Lemmon, but still fun. And as another reviewer says, that theme is unforgettable. You'll have it in your brain for days.

I also saw this movie as a child, and fell in love with it. I particularly liked the wacky gadgets Sam would build, and the theme song (by Frank De Vol) is very catchy. One time when it was on TV, I was able to make an audio tape of it on this crummy little portable real-to-real tape recorder my dad gave me. I played it so much that I was able to memorize whole lines of dialog - "you can't alter a man's death-bed request with a lot of childish spying and gossip. Now obviously this man and woman are husband and wife, Mr and Mrs Howard Ebbets, and as such, I set the distribution of the Lagerlof will for 9am tomorrow morning. Now good day..."It's nice to see Mike Connors in a pre-Mannix role, and you can never get enough of Louis Nye. Edward G Robinson does a good job of playing the wealthy dairyman, Mr Nurdlinger. Plus his participation gives the whole production a needed bit of weight. This is the kind of movie they're talking about when they say - "they don't make 'em like that anymore." And I say, it's our loss.