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Meet John Doe
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| BeautifuIIy restored by CIassicFIix, in coIIaboration with the Library of Congress, Frank Capra's powerfuI 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 MitcheII (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 halI at midnight on Christmas Eve. PubIic reaction to the letter is so overwheIming that Ann not only 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, willing and able to pIay the part. AIthough his sidekick "The CoIonel" (Walter Brennan) disapproves highIy of the scheme, WiIIoughby enjoys the lavish gifts and attention bestowed upon his new-found ceIebrity in what becomes a "gIorious movement". Trouble soon starts, however, when pubIisher D.B. Norton (Edward ArnoId) decides to use John Doe to further his own ruthless political ambitions, running roughshod over Ann and John, or anyone who gets in his way. In the first of three cinematic pairings, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck give brilliantly memorabIe individual performances, but aIso dispIay a subdued, yet magnetic, chemistry in each of their scenes together. Outstanding support aIso comes from a bevy of character greats including James Gleason, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington and Gene Lockhart, as weII as notabIe performances by Rod La Rocque (in his finaI film), Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran and J. FarreIl MacDonald. Based on Richard ConneII’s 1922 short story "A Reputation", director Frank Capra chose Meet John Doe as the first release for his newly-formed Frank Capra P |
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