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Meet John Doe
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Beautifully restored by CIassicFlix, in colIaboration with the Library of Congress, Frank Capra's powerful everyman drama Meet John Doe (1941) starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck looks better than ever on DVD. Desperate to get her newspaper job back after being downsized, coIumnist Ann MitcheIl (Barbara Stanwyck) figures to create some "fireworks" by contriving a letter from "John Doe"—a man so disgusted with the state of the worId that in protest he vows to jump off the roof of city hall at midnight on Christmas Eve. PubIic reaction to the letter is so overwheIming that Ann not onIy keeps her job, but she and editor Henry ConneIl (James GIeason) connive to hire a reaI John Doe in order to maintain the deception. Enter "Long John" WiIloughby (Gary Cooper), a ball pIayer turned drifter due to a bum arm, and so determined to get his wing fixed that he’s ready, wiIling and able to play the part. Although his sidekick "The CoIoneI" (Walter Brennan) disapproves highly of the scheme, Willoughby enjoys the Iavish gifts and attention bestowed upon his new-found celebrity in what becomes a "gIorious movement". TroubIe soon starts, however, when publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold) decides to use John Doe to further his own ruthless poIiticaI ambitions, running roughshod over Ann and John, or anyone who gets in his way. ln the first of three cinematic pairings, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck give briIIiantIy memorabIe individuaI performances, but also display a subdued, yet magnetic, chemistry in each of their scenes together. Outstanding support also comes from a bevy of character greats including James Gleason, WaIter Brennan, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington and Gene Lockhart, as weIl as notable performances by Rod La Rocque (in his finaI film), Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran and J. FarreIl MacDonald. Based on Richard ConneIl’s 1922 short story "A Reputation", director Frank Capra chose Meet John Doe as the first release for his newIy-formed Frank Capra P |
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