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Meet John Doe (1941)
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- Frank Capra
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A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last c...
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Sacked by her newspaper, spunky scribe Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) hatches a hoax to keep her job. In her final column, she pens a missive from "John Doe," a fictitious hobo planning to leap to his death from city hall. When the lett...
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Top Movie Moments
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"Look Mr. Connell. I just can't aford to be without work. I've got a mother and two kid sisters."
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"More Good-luck telegrams..."
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"Five women want to marry him and a man is ready to adopt him."
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"And you..."
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"What bonus?"
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"Oh the bonus of 1000 dollars that the Chronicel was going to pay me for this little document."
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"See Sourpuss Smithers is a guy lives all alone next door to us. He's a cranky old man, runs a second hand furniture store. We haven't spoken to him for years."
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"I always figured he was an ornery old gent, who hated the world cause he was always slamming his garage door and playing the radio so loud, he kept half the neighbors up."
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"There was a lot of us who didn't believe what that man said. We were going to start up our John Doe club again."
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"Whether we saw you or not. And there are a lot of others who are going to do the same thing..."
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