Meet John Doe

I've just found a new favorite film. If you have like Mr. Smith goes to Washington than you'll love Meet John Doe.

A Frank Capra's production

Starring

Gary Cooper

Barbara Stanwyck

Co-Starring

Edward Arnold

Walter Brennan 

Rating

G

Year

1941

I don't want to spoil the story for you, but here is part of a scene. 

(John Doe is about to jump from the top of a building on Christmas. Miss Mitchel comes to stop him)

Ann Mitchel -Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they wouldn't be here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid. That's why they came up here. Oh, darling!... We can start clean now. Just you and I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh please, John... You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe. And he's kept that ideal alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping it alive for ever and always - for every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing, John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting, to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to give up.

Thanks to Miss B for telling me about this movie.