Meet John Doe

Release Date:

May 3, 1941

Running Time:

2:03

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Frank Capra

Cast:

Gary Cooper	John Doe/Long John Willoughby
Barbara Stanwyck	Ann Mitchell
Edward Arnold	D. B. Norton
Walter Brennan	The Colonel
Spring Byington	Mrs. Mitchell
James Gleason	Henry Connell (managing editor,'The New Bulletin')
Gene Lockhart	Mayor Lovett

Producers:

Frank Capra

Writers:

Richard Connell, Robert Riskin

Language:

English

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A reporter writes a fictitious column about someone named ''John Doe,'' who is distraught at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires a ballplayer-turned-hobo to pose as John Doe. In a series of radio addresses written by a publisher with fascist leanings, Doe captures the public's imagination. When he finally realizes he has been used, Doe comes to his senses and becomes the man he never knew he could be.

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