Meet John Doe
(DVD)

Feature running time 123 min.

Originally issued as motion picture in 1941.

Based on a story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.

Film editor, Daniel Mandell ; director of photography, George Barnes ; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin.

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart.

A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will, and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his way to power.

DVD.