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Meet
John
Doe
[videorecording (DVD)].
TGG Direct, 2008.
Call #:
DVD MEE Dra
Subjects
Mass media -- Drama.
Series
Classic DVD series.
Video Difference legacy collection.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 or 2 videodiscs (123 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.
Originally released as a comedy-drama motion picture by Warner Brothers in 1941.
Special features (single-disc version): Interactive menus ; original graphics ; film information ; chapters, direct scene access ; biography ; facts & trivia ; special collector's photo gallery.
Some copies may be two-disc version: 70th anniversary ultimate collector's edition includes three featurettes and two vintage Lux Theater radio program episodes.
Home use only.
Production:
Diamond Entertainment presents ; Frank Capra Productions ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; directed and produced by Frank Capra.
Performers:
Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck with Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington and Andrew Tombes.
Summary:
"As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) ends her last column with a fabricated letter written by an unemployed '
John
Doe
'. Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people, the imaginary '
John
Doe
' threatened suicide. A public phenomenon occurs when the phony letter goes to press. Seeking to keep her job, Mitchell convinces her managing editor (James Gleason) to play up the
John
Doe
letter for all it's worth. To ensure the letters do not seem phony, they hire a ballplayer- turned-hobo (Gary Cooper) to impersonate
John
Doe
. Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth untill the made-up
John
Doe
's philosophy stasrts a whole political movement. Believing that he is working for the good of America, Cooper agrees to front the National
John
Joes Movement, until he discovers that publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold) plans to exploit
John
Doe
in an attempt to create a third political party and impose a virtual dictatorship on the country. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck give wonderful performances in this powerful and heartwarming film in the tradition of It's a Wonderful Life. This is a don't miss motion picture."--Container.
Genre:
Comedy films.
Romance films.
Political films.
Social problem films.
Satirical films.
Melodrama and tearjerker films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991.
Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990.
Brennan, Walter, 1894-1974.
Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956.
Gleason, James, 1886-1959.
Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD MEE Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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