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TITLE Meet John Doe (1941)

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DISABILITY Dwarf

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 132

GENRE Satire?

DIRECTOR Frank Capra

CAST Gary Cooper

Barbara Stanwyck

Edward Arnold

Walter Brennan

James Gleason

NOTES B/W.

Stanwyck gets the sack from her newspaper and in a last

dash of the typewriter 'pens' a letter to the paper purporting to

be from a man of the streets.

The letter provokes so much interest the paper is desperate

to find the man. Of course he doesn't exist so they bring in a

bevy of tramps. Cooper plays the tramp who is chosen.

Naturally with Capra at the helm events get out of hand and in

this case become quite gloomy.

For me Cooper hasn't the range to fill his character. But

Stanwyck is on good form.

Billy Curtis and Johnny Fern play dwarfs.

 


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