Meet John Doe (1941)
Comedy, Drama • 2h 2m
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hymer, Harry Holman, Andrew Tombes, Pierre Watkin, Stanley Andrews, Mitchell Lewis, Charles C. Wilson, Vaughan Glaser, Sterling Holloway, M.J. Frankovich, Knox Manning, John B. Hughes, Harry Davenport, Ann Doran, Franklyn Farnum, Pat Flaherty, Bess Flowers, Hank Mann, James Millican, Bert Moorhouse, Frank Moran, Bert Stevens, Jack Wise, Henry Roquemore, Forbes Murray, Selmer Jackson, John Hamilton, William Forrest, Tina Thayer, Benny Bartlett, Edward Earle, Eddie Kane, Richard Kipling, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Russell Simpson, Charles Trowbridge, Edmund Cobb, George Melford, George Pembroke, Bob Perry, Jim Thorpe
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 9 months ago
ClassicFlix Blu-ray is using the same source and is superior to Youtube 4K Streaming
Overview
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.
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Frank Capra
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1986 Columbia VHS
Director: Frank Capra
1991 Republic Pictures LaserDisc
Sony Frank Capra Boxset 4K Blu-ray
ClassicFlix Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Also available in official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urxyp4wEgw
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Sources: cinema.ucla.edu (opens in a new tab)
Potentially new restoration UCLA premiere
Director: Robert F. McGowan
ClassicFlix The Little Rascals Volume 2 Blu-ray
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
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