
A fictionalized composite of several celebrated murder cases, particularly the Stielow case, in which an innocent man is convicted and sentenced to death on purely speculative evidence..

Lois Weber
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To witness The People vs. John Doe in the modern era is to participate in an act of cinematic archaeology that unearths the very foundations of the social-problem film. Directed...
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