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Meet John Doe (1941) - Gary Cooper's Response to Killing The John Doe Movement

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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2009

A superb bit of screenwriting and acting from Frank Capra's 1941 film Meet John Doe. Cooper delivers this speech to DB Norton (Edward Arnold) and his cronies as they prepare to use the John Doe's to give them presidential power. It is similar to a speech Jimmy Stewart delivers in Capra post-war film It's a Wonderful Life.

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  • Remember this when you see the Occupy Wall St. movement.

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    And I mean that it's the only serious American film to study the subject.  Even if populist, because that was required to get an entrance into the lab.

  • Thanks for posting this. Despite the greatness of this film in so many respects, it's the most cogent example of not-so-latent American Facism that we have.

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