Arriva John Doe!

Titolo originale: Meet John Doe
Regia: Frank Capra |
Anno: 1941
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma
Tag: baseball player | radio broadcast | suicide note | domain | enchant |
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 |

In una piccola città degli Stati Uniti, un giornale cambia proprietario ed alcuni redattori vengono licenziati. Per vendicarsi del licenziamento, una giovane cronista inserisce, nella sua ultima rubrica, una falsa lettera di un ipotetico John Doe. Nella lettera l'uomo annuncia che, nella notte di Natale, si getterà dal grattacielo del municipio per protestare contro le autorità. Il film, noto anche con il titolo di "I dominatori della metropoli" esprime in modo esemplare il sincero populismo roosveltiano di Capra e del suo sceneggiatore Robert Riskin. Famosa la scena finale della convention (girata con sette macchine da presa) con la tirata evangelica di Cooper.

Frasi

The Colonel: I've seen guys like you before. Guys [...] D
D. B. Norton: You'll play your cards right and you [...] D
Henry Connel: Listen, if that guy lays an egg I wa [...] D
Long John Willoughby: Hey, stop worryin', Colonel, [...] D
Mayor Hawkins: O.K. folks, but remember your manne [...] D
Beany: What's a helot? The Colonel: You've ever b [...] D
Ann: [Ann is pleading with John not to commit suic [...] D
Long John Willoughby: I'm gonna talk about us - th [...] D
Angelface: [after Willoughby gives the Colonel the [...] D
Long John Willoughby: [gets carried away spanking [...] D
The Colonel: [criticizing John's anti-separatism s [...] D
Ann: Everything in that speech is what a certain m [...] D
Mayor Hawkins: No you can't see him, you didn't vo [...] D
Long John Willoughby: Well, that certainly is a ne [...] D
Pop Dwyer - Connell's Aide: Show me an American th [...] D
The Colonel: $5,000. Holy mackerel! I can see the [...] D
Henry Connel: Lighthouses, John. Lighthouses in a [...] D
Henry Connel: There you are, Norton - - the people [...] D
Mayor Hawkins: Why, Bert. I feel slighted. I'd lik [...] D
[Discussing the contract with John Doe] Henry Con [...] D
D. B. Norton: What the American people need is an [...] D
Long John Willoughby: [addressing the public] Why [...] D
D. B. Norton: From now on, I think you'd better wo [...] D
The Colonel: Gangway, you helots! D
The Colonel: I don't read no papers, and I don't l [...] D
Henry Connel: I should be drinking milk, you know. [...] D
The Colonel: Get a hold of some dough and the firs [...] D
Ann: If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd [...] D