Directed by:
Frank CapraScreenplay:
Robert RiskinCinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey (more)VOD (1)
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Reporter Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired from her job by an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon and retaliates by printing a fake suicide note to the editor signed by a fictional "John Doe." The letter is picked up by the public as a rallying point, as Mr. Doe claimed to be so distraught by the problems of society that he'd rather end his own life in protest. But the tycoon uses the publicity as part of a secret plan, hiring a down-on-his-luck unemployed man (Gary Cooper) to impersonate Doe--establishing him as an American symbol and creating a new political movement in the process. (official distributor synopsis)
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Vaughan Glaser
USA
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Billy Curtis
USA
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Donald Hall
UK
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Hank Mann
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Lucia Carroll
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Eddie Kane
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Paul Panzer
German Empire
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Charles McAvoy
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Andrew Tombes
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Walter Soderling
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Benny Bartlett
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Alphonse Martell
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Eddie Fetherson
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Guy Usher
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Tom Wilson
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Isabel La Mal
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