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Meet John Doe (1941)

Name: Meet John Doe
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1941
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Cast: Paul Panzer, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Susan Peters

1941123 minComedyStrong rights evidence

Meet John Doe (1941) is a 123-minute comedy film that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Frank Capra.

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About Meet John Doe (1941)

Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, and Gene Lockhart.

A local newspaper, The Bulletin, is under new management and renamed The New Bulletin, with columnist Ann Mitchell being one of the staffers dismissed to "streamline" the paper, but not before being told to write one final column. Infuriated, Ann prints a letter from a fictional unemployed "John Doe" threatening suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society's ills.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Meet John Doe (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast includes: Paul Panzer, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Susan Peters, Spring Byington, Regis Toomey, Ann Doran
Country: United States

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Laugh Track - CH 3, Comedy TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed; story by Richard Connell (1922) PD.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed; story by Richard Connell (1922) PD.
Source: Internet Archive

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