Meet John Doe
By: Frank Capra's production ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra
Contributors: Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961; Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990; Byington, Spring, 1886-1971; Brennan, Walter, 1894-1974; Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956; Gleason, James, 1886-1959; Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957; La Rocque, Rod, 1898-1969; Tombes, Andrew, 1885-1976; Connell, Richard Edward, 1893-1949; Presnell, Robert, 1894-1969; Warner Bros; Frank Capra Productions
Series: Archive collection; Archive collection (American Pop Classics)
Publisher: American Pop Classics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [U.S.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Subjects: Political corruption; Drama; Newspapers; Social problems
Description: Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own political goals by controlling him and the thousands of John Doe fans who support him.
Notes: Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.

Originally released as a motion picture by Warner Bros. Studios. 1941.

Director of photography, George Barnes ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein.

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington, Andrew Tombes.

Not rated by MPAA.

English audio.