Meet John Doe

1941 film directed by Frank Capra

Movie film Q1520732

Facts

28 properties

Instance of: film
Director: Frank Capra^[1]
Genre: romantic comedy, comedy drama, Christmas film, drama film^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]
Publication date: 1941^[31]
Screenwriter: Robert Riskin, Richard Connell^[2]^[3]
Producer: Frank Capra^[23]
Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story
Duration: +122
Assessment: Bechdel test
Cast member: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, J. Farrell MacDonald, Glen Cavender, Hank Mann, Irving Bacon, Kenneth Harlan, Mitchell Lewis, Pat Flaherty, Regis Toomey, Russell Simpson, Sterling Holloway, Warren Hymer, Wyndham Standing, Pierre Watkin, Susan Peters, Ann Doran, George Melford, Lafe McKee, Harry Davenport, Bess Flowers, Jack Mower, Edward Earle, Edmund Cobb, Charles K. French, Forrester Harvey, Leo White, James Millican, Stanley Andrews, Franklyn Farnum, Charles C. Wilson, Cyril Ring, Harry Holman, Emma Tansey, Selmer Jackson, Sarah Edwards, Edward Keane, Bert Moorhouse, Jack Cheatham, Edward Hearn, William Forrest, Charles Trowbridge, Sidney Bracey, John Hamilton, Edward Peil, Billy Curtis, Eddie Kane, Paul Panzer^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]
Color: black-and-white^[29]
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin^[4]
Copyright status: public domain
Country of origin: United States^[30]
Director of photography: George Barnes^[24]
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix
Distribution format: video on demand^[26]
FSK film rating: FSK 6
Film editor: Daniel Mandell
Original language of film or TV show: English^[25]
P14449: 973
P14462: amzn1.dv.gti.00b921cc-b7f4-b6fc-cc2e-2a33d248179b, amzn1.dv.gti.7a82dc21-a187-466f-8b84-f168115f89d2
P14724: 7571056
P14821: 33891

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Production designer: Stephen Goosson
Review score: 7.5/10, 92%^[27]^[28]
Set during recurring event: Christmas and holiday season
Title: Meet John Doe

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 74

GND ID: 4315500-5
ACMI ID: works/83252, works/76131
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 27680
AMPAS collections film ID: W061807
Academy Awards Database film ID: 1469
AllMovie title ID: v32067
Allcinema film ID: 6772
AlloCiné film ID: 1239
Amazon Standard Identification Number: B002KVX7IO
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.2pburdcy00gtjpelz7czy0f8d
Bechdel Test Movie List ID: 3717
Cine.gr film ID (archived): 713120

Show all 74 identifiers +62

CineMagia title ID: 8110
Cinema Context ID: F019682
Cinema.de ID: 1341406
Ciné-Ressources film ID: 30948
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID: 3385
DNF film ID: 13100
Daum movie ID: 36572
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID: 30653, 30654
Douban film ID: 1292904
Dvdcompare.net film ID: 28743, 68574
EDb film ID: t0001519
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/36EE-1586-AFB8-63FD-77C8-0
ElFilm film ID: 33823
Elonet movie ID: 185753
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/Meet-John-Doe
Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/hier-ist-john-doe
FilmAffinity film ID: 470333
FilmTv.it movie ID: 602
FilmVandaag ID: film/11999
Filmfront film ID (archived): 8010
Filmová databáze film ID: 17507
Filmweb.no film ID: 23726
Filmweb.pl film ID: 39504
Freebase ID: /m/07ftxt
IMDb ID: tt0033891
ISAN: 0000-0000-3433-0000-W-0000-0000-F
Internet Archive ID: meet_john_doe, meet_john_doe_ipod, mjd445878820, lhomme-de-la-rue
KINENOTE film ID: 2778
Kanopy ID: 3603888
Kinobox film ID: 21114
Kinopoisk film ID: 3361
LUMIERE film ID: 14688
LdiF ID: 34013
Letterboxd film ID: meet-john-doe
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 2069
Megogo ID: 26450
Metacritic ID: movie/meet-john-doe
Movie Review Query Engine ID: meet-john-doe-m100030663
Movie Walker Press film ID: mv2773
MovieMeter film ID: 2556
Moviepilot.de film ID: hier-ist-john-doe
Movieplayer film ID: 1409
Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID: 168813
Netflix ID: 15857227
OFDb film ID: 19370
OMDb film ID: 20087
PORT film ID: 9666
Plex media key: 5d776861eb5d26001f1e8ace
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/meet_john_doe
SVT Play ID: eaBxvp7
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 40883
Swedish Film Database ID: 9550
TCM Movie Database film ID: 3827
TMDB movie ID: 32574
TV Guide show ID (former scheme): 105904
TV Spielfilm film ID: 1341406
TV.com ID: movies/meet-john-doe
TheTVDB movie ID: 15251
Trakt.tv ID: movies/meet-john-doe-1941
Trakt.tv film ID: 20907
YouTube video ID: QfXGa8w35Gc
ČSFD film ID: 1286

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🔗 Connections

Cast member 52

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Susan Peters, Sterling Holloway, Spring Byington, Edward Arnold, Leo White +44 more

Genre 4

drama film, romantic comedy, comedy drama, Christmas film

Distributed by 2

Netflix, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Screenwriter 2

Robert Riskin, Richard Connell

Assessment 1

Bechdel test

Color 1

black-and-white

Composer 1

Dimitri Tiomkin

public domain

Country of origin 1

United States

Director 1

Frank Capra

Director of photography 1

George Barnes

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Film editor 1

Daniel Mandell

Instance of 1

film

Nominated for 1

Academy Award for Best Story

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Frank Capra

Production designer 1

Stephen Goosson

Set during recurring event 1

Christmas and holiday season

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ Meet John Doe — director (P57): Frank Capra. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Meet John Doe — screenwriter (P58): Robert Riskin. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Meet John Doe — screenwriter (P58): Richard Connell. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Meet John Doe — composer (P86): Dimitri Tiomkin. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Meet John Doe — genre (P136): romantic comedy. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Meet John Doe — genre (P136): comedy drama. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Meet John Doe — genre (P136): Christmas film. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Meet John Doe — genre (P136): drama film. Retrieved 2019-05-27. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Gary Cooper. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Barbara Stanwyck. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Edward Arnold. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Walter Brennan. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Spring Byington. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): James Gleason. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Gene Lockhart. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Rod La Rocque. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): J. Farrell MacDonald. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Glen Cavender. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Hank Mann. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Irving Bacon. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Kenneth Harlan. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Meet John Doe — cast member (P161): Mitchell Lewis. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Meet John Doe — producer (P162): Frank Capra. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Meet John Doe — director of photography (P344): George Barnes. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Meet John Doe — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Meet John Doe — distribution format (P437): video on demand. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Meet John Doe — review score (P444): 7.5/10. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2021-10-07. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Meet John Doe — review score (P444): 92%. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Meet John Doe — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ Meet John Doe — country of origin (P495): United States. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ Meet John Doe — publication date (P577): 1941. wikidata.org.

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