MEET JOHN DOE: 70TH ANNIVERSARY ULTIMATE COLL ED [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1941
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt, and as a parting shot at the paper s new editor, the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the Bulletin s readers and the wider American public. Its real author, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) who has fabricated the letter in her final column, is rehired, and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional John Doe. Gary Cooper is perfectly cast as Long John Willoughby, an injured and penniless former baseball pitcher lured into impersonating John Doe with the promise of medical treatment. In what would have undoubtedly been an Oscar winning performance, were it not for his own success that same year in Howard Hawk s Sergeant York, Cooper excels himself here as Willoughby s initial indifference to his undertaking turns to genuine concern at his role. But, as he becomes an increasingly culpable pawn in an ever more treacherous game, just how can John Doe redeem himself? ; ; The film explores a recurring notion in Capra s work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment, the film s reflections on corporate control of both the media, and of ordinary people s lives is still a resonant social commentary as ever.
• Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hymer, Harry Holman, Andrew Tombes, Pierre Watkin, Stanley Andrews, Mitchell Lewis, Charles C. Wilson, Vaughan Glaser, Sterling Holloway, M.J. Frankovich, Knox Manning, John B. Hughes, Frank Austin, Evelyn Barlow, Benny Bartlett, Mary Benoit, Max Blum, Aldrich Bowker, Sidney Bracey, Fritzi Brunette, Earle D. Bunn, Lucia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Howard Chase, Jack Cheatham, Edmund Cobb, Mildred Coles, Alan Copeland, Madge Crane, Floyd Criswell, Billy Curtis, Daisy, Lew Davis, Vernon Dent, Evelyn Dockson, Ann Doran, Edward Earle, Sarah Edwards, Carl Ekberg, Paul Everton, Frank Fanning, Franklyn Farnum, Eddie Fetherston, Pat Flaherty, Bess Flowers, Fern Formica, William Forrest, Charles K. French, Jack Gardner, Inez Gay, Ethel Gilstrom, William Gould, Eddie Graham, Mack Gray, Jay Guedillio, Alfred Hall, Donald Hall, John Hamilton, Kenneth Harlan, James Harrison, Forrester Harvey, Edward Hearn, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Max Hoffman Jr., Stuart Holmes, John Ince, Selmer Jackson, Frank Jaquet, Carlotta Jelm, Eddie Kane, Edward Keane, Richard Kipling, Isabel La Mal, Melvin Lang, Florence Lawler, Walter Linden, Al Lloyd, Hank Mann, Alphonse Martell, Frank Mayo, Charles McAvoy, Larry McGrath, Joe McGuinn, Tom McGuire, Lafe McKee, James McNamara, Edward McWade, Claire Meade, George Melford, Frank Capra, Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Sr., Robert Riskin, Myles Connolly
• Director: Frank Capra
• Runtime: 2:03
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Frank Capra Productions, VCI Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie