"MEET JOHN DOE"
Sir-Your film reviewer, "G.M." gives interesting reviews of films, which reviews I am generally in agreement with. Had I read his review of Meet John Doe, I would probably have abstained from seeing it. As it was, I went quite unbiased and, with two friends, enjoyed every bit of it. Surely your reviewer must have gone in a carping mood. The plot is good and, compared with most of the flabby, ill-sustained plots, is well knit and well thought out. The photography is, of course, exceptionally good, and the crowd scenes thrill me with the mass emotion of crowds. The characters are well cast; most of the characters standing out as real people--not actors portraying them. Gary Couper gives a very intelligent rendering, starting as an uneducated yokel and gradually absorbing the philosophy of life propounded by Barbara Stanwyck, but borrowed from her dead _ visionary father. I agree that Barbara Stanwyck does not reach the heights, but Walter Brennon’s speech on the drawback attaching to possessions, is a gem which alone would make the film worth seeing. Also the half-drunken editor’s revelation of Edward Arnold’s duplicity to Gary Cooper, and Gary Cooper’s grad- ual realisation of it is a wonderfully acted scene. Then the pathetic scene where Gary Cooper escapes with Walter Brennan and is detected, and the local people come and tell him their experiences, is a very moving one. Altogether it is a film well above the ordinary, and I would like film-goers to see it with an unbiased mind, when, I think, as we three did, that they will agree it is a film to enjoy and think over afterwards
ROBERT A.
WILSON
Bulls) .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 216, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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