"All America wants to meet the “Mr. Deeds” of 1941!"14 March 1941Drama, Comedy, Romance123 mins
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 it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
On New Year's night, Sandro suffers a heart attack and needs to have an emergency transplant. He ends up receiving the heart of Isadora, a transvestite owner of a beauty salon who had died a few moments before, victim of a runover.
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head of an orchestra.
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents.
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Meet John Doe Trailer
Here's a trailer I produced for this Frank Capra classic starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck (unfortunately we misspelled her name in the trailer!).
Original Meet John DoeTrailer
Frank Capra's darkly comedic drama Meet John Doe premiered on May 3 1941.
Meet John Doe - Full Movie - GREAT QUALITY (1941)
Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film is ...
Meet John Doe (1941) [Comedy]
"Meet John Doe" is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film is ...
Meet John Doe Original Trailer
Original trailer created by yours truly. 1941 Frank Capra film I was kinda going for the creepy angle and not quite sure it worked. A broken trailer sort of like this ...
MEET JOHN DOE Faux trailer
Usually I only do these for trailers where the original doesn't survive. In this case the original does survive (it's on youtube from Captain Bijou) but I needed a ...
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In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her.
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores.
The story of a rich man's son who has just reached the age of adolescence. With his money and good looks, he starts out to conquer the world, especially the feminine world thinking he is the master of everything because of his financial and social standing.
A college girl (Bonnie Kildare) dreams of her boyfriend (Johnny Downs) as he sings her a love song. The song begins at graduation ceremony and eventually moves to a soda fountain.
