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Meet John Doe (1941)
Director: Frank Capra
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From Time Out Film Guide
Stanwyck causes a sensation with an invented newspaper story about a tramp promising to kill himself to protest at the state of the world - and then she auditions plain-speaking hick Gary Cooper for the part. His goodwill campaign takes the nation by storm, but proves ripe for political manipulation. After a bright start, this hunkers down to serious hand-wringing... Coop's hick (none too convincingly hinted at as the new Messiah) turns out to be a bore, and Capra strains to accommodate political chicanery and his own half-baked idealism.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, James Gleason, Spring Byington, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran, Gene Lockhart full cast
Duration: 123 mins
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