TY - ADVS AU - Capra,Frank AU - Riskin,Robert AU - Cooper,Gary AU - Stanwyck,Barbara AU - Arnold,Edward AU - Brennan,Walter ED - Warner Bros ED - Frank Capra Productions TI - Meet John Doe SN - 1557397155 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2010/// CY - [Tulsa, OK] PB - VCI Entertainment KW - Newspapers KW - Drama KW - Social problems KW - Politicians N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -