Meet John Doe

The Resource Meet John Doe
Label
Meet John Doe
Statement of responsibility
Frank Capra's production ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Member of
Cataloging source
LD4
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, George Barnes ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
Not rated by MPAA
Language note
English audio
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.M44 2009
PerformerNote
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington, Andrew Tombes
Runtime
122
Series statement
Archive collection
Target audience
general
Technique
live action

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Context of Meet John Doe

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