Meet John Doe [videorecording (DVD)] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; Frank Capra Productions ; [Sherman S. Krellberg presenting] ; screen play by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra.
Special features include: Audio commentary ; Meet Mr. Cooper ; Meet Miss Stanwyck ; Meet Mr. Capra ; Vintage "Lux Theater" radio productions ; Before and after comparison of the digital restoration ; Extensive cast and crew profiles ; Production background. Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington, Andrew Tombes. Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell. Originally released as a motion picture by Warner Brothers in 1941.
Summary:
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.
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