Meet John Doe (1941) | Directed by Frank Capra - Full Movie
A man needing money agrees to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper's wealthy owner. It became a box-office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story. It was ranked #49 in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers. In 1969, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. It was the first of two features Capra made for Warner Brothers, after he left Columbia Pictures, the other being Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Directed by: Frank Capra
Screenplay by: Robert Riskin
Story by: Robert Presnell, Sr.
Based on: A Reputation 1922 story in Century Magazine by Richard Connell
Produced by: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
Cinematography: George Barnes
Edited by: Daniel Mandell
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date: May 3, 1941
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: $1.8 million (initial U.S. release)
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