Virtual Saturday Night at the Movies
Toronto Film Society will be screening Meet John Doe (1941) straight to your home on Friday, December 6, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. (ET)! Directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, from a screenplay by Robert Riskin, this film won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story.
Rotten Tomatoes summarizes the film better than anyone:
A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a fictitious column about someone named “John Doe,” who is distraught at America’s neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. The newspaper then hires a ballplayer-turned-hobo (Gary Cooper) to pose as John Doe. In a series of radio addresses written by a publisher with fascist leanings, Doe captures the public’s imagination. When he finally realizes he has been used, Doe comes to his senses and becomes the man he never knew he could be.
Register for this free screening here!
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Beginning Season 73 until now we have shown: Charade (1963), The Red House (1947), Meet John Doe (1941), D.O.A. (1949), His Girl Friday (1940), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Scarlet Street (1945), Nothing Sacred (1937), The Stranger (1946), Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942), The Strange Love of Marth Ivers (1946), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Love Affair (1939), Champagne for Caesar (1950), Second Chorus (1940), Gulliver’s Travels (1939), Detour (1945), Nosferatu (1922), My Man Godfrey (1936), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), The Woman in Green (1945), The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), Rain (1932), Kansas City Confidential (1952), And Then There Were None (1945), Royal Wedding (1951), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), The Southerner (1945) Sunrise (1927), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Too Late for Tears (1949), Penny Serenade (1941), Der Hund von Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) (1929), The Most Dangerous Game (1932), The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), Sin Takes a Holiday (1930), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Deluge (1933), The Lost World (1925), The Golem (1920), Bluebeard (1944), His Girl Friday (1940), Made for Each Other (1939), Cause for Alarm! (1951), The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Lodger (1927).
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