Meet John Doe

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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck , Spring Byington , Gary Cooper , Gene Lockhart , Regis Toomey , James Gleason , Edward Arnold , Irving Bacon , Pierre Watkin , Warren Hymer , Walter Brennan , Andrew Tombes , J. Farrell MacDonald , Rod La Rocque , Harry Holman

Director: Frank Capra

IMDB Rate: 7.7 out of 10 (4573 votes)

Plot Summary: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.