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Meet John Doe [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; The Laureate Company ; produced at Warner Bros. Studio ; screen play by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra

Contributor(s): Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 | Riskin, Robert | Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961 | Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990 | Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956 | Brennan, Walter, 1894-1974 | Warner Bros | Frank Capra Productions.
Publisher: [Tulsa, OK] : VCI Entertainment, c2010Edition: 70th anniversary ultimate collector's ed. ; 2 DVD ed.Description: 2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 1557397155; 9781557397157.Subject(s): Newspapers -- Drama | Social problems -- Drama | Politicians -- DramaDDC classification: 791.4372
Contents:
Disc 1. Movie -- disc 2. Featurettes
Production Credits: Photography, George Barnes ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; Dimitri Tiomkin ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington, Andrew TombesSummary: 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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791.4372 MEE 2010 (Browse shelf) Set of 2 DVDs 1 Available SLASx,05000,01,GR 1000525439

Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.

Originally released as a motion picture by Warner Brothers in 1941

Disc 1. Movie -- disc 2. Featurettes

Photography, George Barnes ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; 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

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.

DVD [NTSC], all regions; Dolby digital

In English with optional English, French, German Spanish subtitles