Snow falls softly over a picture-postcard American town.
A man, thoroughly despondent and unaware of the extent of his influence to the good on the people around him, contemplates suicide in the midst of this peaceful scene. I'm talking about Frank Capra's classic MEET JOHN DOE , released five years earlier in 1941. Doe's rants against corruption in politics, the lack of decency in world, and the like inspire people, first locally and then nationwide, to take an interest in their neighbors and make their towns a better place to live. But nefarious things are going on behind the scenes. He has political ambitions and plans to use the John Doe Clubs to send him to the White House.