TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Karl Ericsson There's a difference between being good and being intelligently good. The former don't care much if their Pearls are being served to swine, the latter care very much about that and try to avoid it. The former do not fight capitalism, the latter do, because there is no other way to be good.There is no need for Charity in a system of absolute material equality and the intelligently good strive for that system. You see, those who Think that they are entitled to a thousand times more than other people are not good people, they are evil people, got it? If you are truly good, you will fight the system that make evil people the Winners, won't you? Got it? Good.Sam in this Movie don't Think much at all. He's a seller in a department store and at the same time he is supposed to be good. That is idiotic, period.The 3 votes out of 10 are for the performers of this Movie. They did not Think much either otherwise they would not be in this Movie but they have made other great stuff and therefore you will have to forgive them.

MartinHafer With two top actors, Gary Cooper and Ann Sheridan, and one of the best directors of his day, Leo McCarey, you have the formula for a great film. Unfortunately, "Good Sam" is NOT a great movie...nor is it even a good one. In fact, it's one of the biggest wastes of talent due to a painfully bad script with a painfully unfunny premise. In fact, I found it painful to sit and watch this film.Gary Cooper plays Sam (Good Sam--Good Samaritan...get it?!). Sam is just too nice to be true and makes Ned Flanders (from "The Simpsons") seem like Hitler by comparison! This is because Sam is so generous, so nice and so trusting that everyone in town takes advantage of him. However, in the process, his own family keeps getting the short end of things and his ultra-patient wife eventually has enough. And, after seeing Cooper play such a simpering guy, your probably have had enough by then as well! The bottom line is that NO ONE is that nice as well as that thoughtless when it comes to their family. The story just comes off as contrived and ridiculous.Incidentally, this movie was a big box office loser when it debuted, so it's not just my opinion that it's a bad film--America and film critics at the time also thought it was pretty bad!

John T. Ryan IN WHAT MUST be regraded as an in-betweener (that being a story that is half way between being a farce and a sort of serious story), we see Gary Cooper in this curious comedy from Leo McCarey. We can't say that it doesn't have a great deal to offer; yet it never really realizes its full potential.BEING A PRODUCT OF the great Director McCarey, it has a great lineage from which it inherited many of the traits that had been become common ingredients of a feature comedy by that time. "That time", in this case, would be the late 1940's.MANY OF THOSE very traits were developed during those "golden" years of the silent movie era; being the mid to late 1920's. Two of the mainstays of technique were developed in the Hal Roach Studios. These were the slowing down of the comic action to allow for the building of a gag to a climax and effect; instead of rapid fire barrages of punches, kicks, custard pies and pratfalls.THE SECOND PRINCIPAL, which is a sort of methodical outgrowth of this deliberate style, has been named, "Reciprocal Destruction". This sort of extended gag witnesses the back and forth, ever escalating loosing of mayhem and malicious mischief on the property of others; with each side, all the while, never doing anything to prevent the other side from destroying ones own property. Got It? THE MAIN EXPONENT of such comic principles are those silent film shorts starring Laurel & Hardy. Mr. Leo McCarey is said to have been the main architect of these methods.IN THE FILM of which we are speaking, GOOD SAM, we have Mr. McCarey attempting to recapture some of the zaniness from by gone days by using generous portions of these now "old" reliables. Perhaps Leo was seen as having hit the zenith of his career in the Bing Crosby vehicles, GOING MY WAY and THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S.THE RESULTNIG MOVIE comes out with what we must call mixed results in the final product. McCarey places a very contemporary, though highly idealized American family (Gary Cooper, Anne Sheridan, etc.) into a sort of latter day Laurel & Hardy comedy.AT THE VERY heart of the story is a spoof of what would happen if someone, e.g., the head of a typical, church going, God fearing, Judeo-Chrisyian household takes the Golden Rule to an extreme. It is in this that, we believe, is the crux of the problem.AND, JUST AS a word of caution, please do not confuse this picture with the Jack Lemmon starring comedy vehicle, GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM (); which we feel does a much better job of hitting the old bull's eye! WE HAVE TO believe that, while the feature is somewhat enjoyable, it is doomed to failure from the start. After all, how can you make the loving and good treatment of your neighbors into a fault and expect anything else?

alexmartinez-1 I love this movie, it has such a wonderful message! I first saw it while I was living in Kansas City; one of the local television stations broadcast it during the holidays. I taped it because I loved it so much. Unfortunately that tape didn't survive multiple moves, so I was glad to see that it was available on VHS. However, I think this version on VHS tape has a scene missing; I remember that in the version on television there was a scene half way through the movie where Chloe, Lu's maid plays football in the front yard with the rest of the family. It was hilarious and a lot of fun! The VHS version I bought didn't have that. I wonder if anyone knows what may have happened there. All in all, it is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I always have to see it around the holidays. I hope you all enjoy it.