John doe barbara stanwyck biography
John doe barbara stanwyck biography
Barbara stanwyck...
Directed and produced by Frank Capra; original story by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell; screenplay by Robert Riskin; cinematography by George Barnes; edited by Daniel Mandell; art direction by Stephen Goosson; music by Dimitri Tiomkin; music direction by Leo F.
Forbstein; starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, James Gleason, Edward Arnold, Gene Lockhart, Irving Bacon, Spring Byington, and Rod La Rocque. Two-disc 70th anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition DVD, B&W, 123 min.
1941.
Is there anything fresh left to say about Frank Capra the director and his most pessimistic film, Meet John Doe? Watching it again on a recently released DVD —VCI Entertainment’s digitally restored version—I began to think of alternate ways of looking at the film.
Much of what I picked up during this screening dealt with Meet John Doe’simplicit and explicit relationship to the contemporary political scene.
Meet John Doe is a fable that deals with the dangers o