Good Sam

1948

Comedy / Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1198 1.2K

robbery neighbor

Plot summary

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

Director

Leo McCarey Photo
Leo McCarey

Top cast

Irving Bacon Photo
Irving Bacon as Tramp
Todd Karns Photo
Todd Karns as Joe Adams
Minerva Urecal Photo
Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Nelson
William Frawley Photo
William Frawley as Tom Moore
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.03 GB
986*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 2
1.91 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ksf-2 7 / 10

G. Cooper, A. Sheridan. Gets better as it goes along (Spoilers)

Reviewed by telegonus 7 / 10

This Should Have Been a Masterpiece

Leo McCarey's Good Sam, the story of a suburban good guy who can't say no to his friends and neighbors, should have been a masterpiece. It has many of the same ingredients as It's a Wonderful Life, and was directed and co-written by a man who was at his best Frank Capra's equal. McCarey directed the best Marx Brothers picture, Duck Soup, plus the splendid Ruggles Of Red Gap, the heartbreaking Make Way For Tomorrow, the enormously popular (if overlong) Going My Way, and its sequel, The Bells Of St. Mary's. He was even in a partnership with Capra, to produce films independently, but lost his touch after the war. Good Sam shows McCarey's brilliance with actors, all of whom (Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, William Frawley) are excellent, but the script is convoluted and the story, an inspired idea, is, as told, hard to follow. It's worth watching, for McCarey's directorial "touches", which are wonderful, but the film is plodding and episodic, and seems to go on forever.
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