John Doe/Long John Willoughby
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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. [2] It became a box-office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.
Meet John Doe: Directed by Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan. A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1941-05-03
Mar 21, 2014 · An ordinary man becomes a hooded vigilante who kills violent criminals in Australia. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out more about this controversial film.
- (8.7K)
- Crime, Thriller
- Kelly Dolen
- 2014-03-21
Jul 23, 2017 · PLOT A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) 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...
- 123 min
- 108.4K
- The Smoking Hat
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby (Gary Cooper) to impersonate "Doe."
John Doe (Jamie Bamber) is an ordinary man who decides to take the law into his own hands after the unsolved murder of his wife and nine-year-old daughter. John Doe then exacts justice by killing other criminals, one at a time.
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Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck | Romance Comedy | Full Movie. A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a...
- 123 min
- 284.6K
- Cult Cinema Classics
