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Farewell To Arms is a tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry (Gary Cooper) and Nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes) during World War I. The action takes place in Italy where the two fall in love and will stop at nothing to be together. The fateful ending is one of the most moving in cinematic history. Meet John Doe:Barbara Stanwyck plays fired journalist Ann Mitchell, who as a parting shot, prints a fake letter from unemployed 'John Doe' threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The ensuring huge swell of public interest and sales forces the paper to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby (Gary Cooper) to impersonate Doe. Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up John Doe philosophy starts a whole political movement. At least everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously but newspaper publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Advantages: Find out lots of useless trivia Disadvantages: What is going on?
. But the most important questions he needs to answer are: who is he, and where is he from?
At his first port of call, the police, but when they are no help, he runs ads, on the internet, in the papers etc. Eventually, being a suspicious character due to his immense knowledge of the unknowable, he winds up in trouble with the law, and the only way out is to convince the police that he can really do what he says he can do.
Little by little, JohnDoe becomes trusted by Frank, the police detective who arrested him, and ends up solving the crime for him. After a few more adventures of this kind, John takes on the role of a police consultant, called in for every unsolvable case they have. But there is always part of him, in virtually every episode, which is getting closer to the truth of who he is.
Toward the end of the series, the search ...
CRIPPLE 24.02.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of John Doe
Advantages: overall good film Disadvantages: not brilliant
I never watched this film at the cinema mainly because it was only out for about 2 weeks, but when a friend lent me the US version of the DVD last month I could not stop myself from watching it because he told me it was good.
Director Nick Cassauetes
Cast:
Denzel Washington (Training Day, The bone collector)
Robert Duval (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
James Wood (Any Given Sunday, Riding in cars with boys)
Cert: 15
Number of disks: 1
Run time: 1hr 57 min
price: R2 £14.99 www.play.com ,free p&p
The Story:
John Q is the story of an ordinary family with a steady job and all he is interested in is providing the best for his wife and son.
So when he is told that his son is terminally ill with a heart defect and he needs a transplant now he asks for the operation believing that his medical insurance (USA has no NHS ...
andrew007 04.12.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of John Q. (DVD)
Advantages: Good story, good acting, some good funny bots Disadvantages: John Wayne!
John Wayne and Comedy are not 2 words which I would have associated together but in this film he has actually tried to play a comedy role. I hate to admit it but he actually did a decent job!.
Sam, John Wayne and George, Stewart Granger, are best friends who have struck it rich n the gold mines in Alaska. The men return to their town millionaires and now George thinks that it is time to go and fetch his sweetheart Jennie who is waiting for him is Seattle. Sam offers to go and collect her as George is needed to stay at the mines but when Sam arrives in Seattle he finds that in the 3 years Jennie has been waiting for George she has already married someone else.
Sam makes a hard decision as he meets a French lady in a dancing club and decides that he will take her as a replacement bride for George.
Will George like his new lady ...
An anonymous letter is sent to a newspaper protesting at the state of world affairs. Based on a story by Richard Connell.
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In this Frank Capra film, Gary Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, an unemployed man who is duped into becoming an American symbol by D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. When Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by Norton, she sends a fake suicide note to the publisher signed by "John Doe." The letter is picked up by the public as a rallying point, since "Mr. Doe" claimed to be so distraught by the problems of society that he would end his life. But Norton uses the publicity as part of a secret plan. Capra's endearing classic also stars the great character actors Walter Brennan and James Gleason.
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