Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 122
Languages: English
Director: Frank Capra
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

What happens when make-believe believes its real?

In darkness, there can be light. In misery, there can be beauty. In death, there can be life....

Open the door to another world and an exciting new vision in cinema

An imaginative gothic fairytale for adults set in Spain during World War I

Innocence Has A Power Evil Cannot Imagine.

Writing by: Richard Connell - (story) and
Robert Presnell Sr. - (story) (as Robert Presnell)
Robert Riskin - (writer)

Produced by: Frank Capra - producer

Cast: Gary Cooper - Long John Willoughby - John Doe
Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell
Edward Arnold - D. B. Norton
Walter Brennan - The Colonel
Spring Byington - Mrs. Mitchell
James Gleason - Henry Connell
Gene Lockhart - Mayor Lovett
Rod La Rocque - Ted Sheldon - Nortons Nephew
Irving Bacon - Beany
Regis Toomey - Bert Hansen - Soda Jerk
J. Farrell MacDonald - Sourpuss Smithers

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
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Plot Outline: A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell 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 to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all its worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The two "Stick Insects" are credited as Cheech and Chong, after which it says "MAY THEY REST IN PEACE".

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The collar of John Does coat is alternately up and down between shots when Ann is persuading him not to jump off the roof.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Director Frank Capra tested the film in different areas of the US with four different endings to determine which one to keep. In one, John Willoughby commits suicide. In another, Ann Mitchell persuades him not to leap from City Hall. Inspired by a letter signed "John Doe," Capra filmed a fifth and final ending in which Mitchell talks some sense into Willoughby and then faints into his arms.
• The tune that the main characters constantly play on their sweet potatoes is "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actors Life for Me)" from Pinocchio (1940)
• Frank Capras first choice for the role of Ann Mitchell was Ann Sheridan. However, she was vetoed by Warner Bros. in a contract dispute.

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