Bibliograph

A farewell to arms, Meet John Doe

Type

Label

A farewell to arms, Meet John Doe

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

A farewell to arms

Medium

videorecording ;

Oclc number

461307816

Runtime

192

Sub title

Meet John Doe

Summary

A farewell to arms (1932, 75 min.): A wounded American soldier falls in love with his beautiful English nurse during World War IMeet John Doe (1941, 117 min.): A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will, and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his way to power

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification