Product Details

• Actors: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring
• Directors: Leo McCarey
• Writers: Leo McCarey, John D. Klorer, Ken Englund
• Producers: Leo McCarey
• Format: Black & White, EP, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Run Time: 114 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300208397
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,741 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas movie Better than It's A Wonderful Life, April 9, 2006

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Lily - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Sam [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The humor in this movie still holds up today. There was a very loose remake of this movie as Good Neighbor Sam with Jack Lemon, but it wasn't even in the same ballpark as the original. I saw it one Christmas on TV but never saw it again so I had to order it. Gary Cooper is wonderful as the good guy, great neighbor etc.,who everyone takes advantage of. But Ann Sheridan steals the show as his long-suffering wife. From the half-blind neighbor who borrows his car, the brother-in-law that moves in and causes Gary and Ann to have to sleep in separate rooms, the impatient boss who just can't understand why Coop has to talk to every customer who comes into the store, to the wonderfully awful people he sends to his wife for help she really doesn't want to give, it gets funnier and funnier. This is one of my favorite movies.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Christmas classic., March 13, 2007

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R. Christenson "SpaceComics.com" (Pine, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Sam [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Good Sam is a charming Capra-esque Christmas classic directed by Leo McCarey (The Bells of St. Mary's, Going My Way). It's about a family man whose generosity to friends, relatives, neighbors, and strangers exceeds all normal expectations, apparently at the expense of his own immediate family, reaching a crisis at Christmas. See the movie to find out if what goes around comes around and it all works out. Gary Cooper is always fun to watch in this type of comedy drama, as he was in Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes To Town and Meet John Doe, and Howard Hawke's Ball of Fire.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Good Sam [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Good Sam" is a really greatmovie to watch because of themoral lesson that one can learn when you are a "good sam(aritan)" like Gary Cooperin the movie. It's a must see!