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Meet John Doe

1941

Frank Capra

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan ...

7.6

6,711

Drama Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars as the reporter who cooks up the scheme, but slowly begins to believe the words she is writing and falls in love with the man she helped to create. Politicians want to use his hold over the common people to further their own ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The synthetic fabric of the story is the weakness of the production, despite the magnificence of the Frank Capra-directed superstructure"	NEU
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A glowing tribute to the anonymous citizen"	POS

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