(Hier ist John Doe | L'Homme de la rue)
by Frank Capra
USA 1941
Director:
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Frank Capra | |
Producer:
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Frank Capra | |
Production Companies:
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Frank Capra Productions for Warner Bros. | |
Screenplay:
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Robert Riskin (based on a story "The Life and Death of John Doe" by Robert Presnell, Richard Connell) | |
Cinematographer:
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George Barnes, A.S.C. (b/w, 1.37:1) | |
Editor:
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Daniel Mandell | |
Music Score:
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Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Art Director:
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Stephen Goosson | |
Costume Designer:
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Natalie Visart | |
Sound:
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C.A. Riggs | |
Cast:
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Gary Cooper (Long John Willoughby/John Doe), Barbara Stanwyck (Ann Mitchell), Walter Brennan (Colonel), James Gleason (Connell), Edward Arnold (D.B. Norton), Spring Byington (Mrs. Mitchell), Gene Lockhart (Mayor Lovett) | |
Runtime:
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135 min / 123 min (re-release) | |
Premiere:
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3 May 1941 (USA) |
"Meet John Doe est certainement le meilleur film américain jamais réalisé sur ce vertige ideologique qui ébranla tout patriote jusqu'ici aveuglément persuadé de l'infaillibilité du système américain. "
Michel Cieutat, Frank Capra "Meet John Doe is a sermon delivered by a master technician. Capra's virtuosity astonishes in the scenes of a mass rally in the rain, the director in his manipulation of crowds and his organising of the images displaying an almost peerless cinematic command." "Both the film itself and the way it was created are riddled with cynicism masked as desperation, or desperation masked as cynicismit's diffcult to tell where the phony sentiment leaves off and the real sentimentality begins. " "Capra's supposed optimism was a cover for his more fundamental pessimism, and his happy endings which seem tacked on, as in Meet John Doe, represent an inability to reestablish the emotional balance." |
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Distribution:
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Image Entertainment / Hal Roach Studios Region 1 (not encoded) |
Sanctuary Digital Entertainment / The Laureate Collection Region 2 UK (not encoded) Special Edition |
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Runtime:
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122:16 min | 122:08 min (lacking Warner Bros. logo) | |
Video:
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1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 4.47 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 4.95 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
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Audio:
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English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono | English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Audio commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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Subtitles:
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None | English (captions), Deutsch, Español, Français | |
Features:
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None | Audio commentary by film historian Ken Barnes (includes archive comments by Frank Capra) 3 featurettes: Meet Mr. Cooper (16:37 min) Meet Miss Stanwyck (14:46 min) Meet Mr. Capra (18:20 min) Supporting Cast & Crew Digital restoration of Meet John Doe (a before and after comparison) (01:51 min) Vintage Radio Promotion: (A) Sorry Wrong Number starring Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster, (B) For Whom The Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman Production background |
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DVD Release Date: 13 February 2001 Snap Case Chapters: 12 DVD Encoding: NTSC Region 0 SS-SL/DVD-5 |
DVD Release Date: 15 October 2001 Keep Case Chapters: 20 DVD Encoding: NTSC Region 0 SS-DL/DVD-9 |
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Average Bitrate Region 1:
4.47 mb/s
Average Bitrate Region 2:
4.95 mb/s
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