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Gary Cooper: Meet John Doe / On Film / Fighting Caravans (2 DVD Set) (1931)
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Hollywood Classics
Meet John Doe Portraying a struggling journalist, Barbara Stanwyck is fired by a newly hired managing editor, James Gleason. She retaliates by writing a fictional piece about an idealist named John Doe and through him she rants about the injustices of big business and corrupt politicians taking over the common working man. A homeless man and an ex-baseball pitcher short on cash, John Willougby, played by Gary Cooper, impersonates John Doe, resulting in a political movement for the working class. Financed independently without a studio, Meet John Doe embodies Capra's democratic principles with sentimentality and optimism.
Gary Cooper: On Film In a career spanning five decades and 85 motion pictures, Gary Cooper was an original: tall and extraordinarily handsome, bathed in an aura of innocence and integrity, he was a man of few words. In his day he was among the handful of Hollywood actors who was perceived not merely as a celebrity, or even a star, but as an icon, symbolizing greatness, the virtues of decent, honest living, and above all, unselfish heroism. This documentary takes us on a trip through the life and career of a true Hollywood legend.
Fighting Caravans Gary Cooper stars in this adaptation of Zane Grey's western as a young frontiersman who journeys across the country with his freight wagon. On the way, he fights Indians and evil traders while his old companions try and keep him from falling in love. Filmed entirely in Sonora, California, Fighting Caravans is a western classic!
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