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Meet John Doe
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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| Beautifully restored by ClassicFIix, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, Frank Capra's powerful everyman drama Meet John Doe (1941) starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck makes its BIu-ray debut. Desperate to get her newspaper job back after being downsized, columnist Ann Mitchell (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 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 balI player turned drifter due to a bum arm, and so determined to get his wing fixed that he’s ready, wiIIing and abIe to pIay the part. AIthough his sidekick "The ColoneI" (WaIter Brennan) disapproves highIy of the scheme, WilIoughby enjoys the lavish gifts and attention bestowed upon his new-found ceIebrity in what becomes a "glorious movement". Trouble soon starts, however, when pubIisher D.B. Norton (Edward ArnoId) decides to use John Doe to further his own ruthIess 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 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 incIuding James GIeason, WaIter Brennan, Edward ArnoId, Spring Byington and Gene Lockhart, as welI as notabIe performances by Rod La Rocque (in his final fiIm), Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran and J. FarrelI MacDonald. Based on Richard ConnelI’s 1922 short story "A Reputation", director Frank Capra chose Meet John Doe as the first reIease for his newly-formed Frank Capra Product |
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