TY - ADVS AU - Capra,Frank AU - Riskin,Robert AU - Cooper,Gary AU - Stanwyck,Barbara AU - Byington,Spring AU - Brennan,Walter AU - Arnold,Edward AU - Gleason,James AU - Lockhart,Gene AU - La Rocque,Rod AU - Tombes,Andrew AU - Connell,Richard AU - Presnell,Robert ED - Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) ED - Laureate Company. ED - Frank Capra Productions, ED - VCI Entertainment (Firm) TI - Frank Capra's Meet John Doe SN - 9781557397157 U1 - 791.43/72 23 PY - 2010///] CY - [Tulsa, Okla.] PB - VCI Entertainment KW - Newspapers KW - Drama KW - Social problems KW - Political plays KW - lcgft KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Video recordings KW - Feature films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture by Warner Brothers in 1941; Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell; Special features include audio commentary, Meet Mr. Cooper, Meet Miss Stanwyck, Meet Mr. Capra, Vintage "Lux Theater" radio productions, before and after comparison of the digital restoration, extensive cast and crew profiles, production background; Disc 1. Movie -- disc 2. Featurettes; Photography, George Barnes ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; Dimitri Tiomkin ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein; Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod LaRocque, Spring Byington, Andrew Tombes; Not rated N2 - Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own political goals by controlling him and the thousands of John Doe fans who support him ER -