The People vs. John Doe (1916)
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
- Date of release
- 1916-12-10
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Lois Weber
Casting
- Harry De More — John Doe
- Evelyn Selbie — Mrs. Doe
- Willis Marks — Doe's Brother
- Leah Baird — Woman Lawyer
- George Berrell — Wealthy Farmer
- Maude George — His Sister (as Maud George)
- Charles Hill Mailes — Detective
- R. Cecil Smith — Prominent Lawyer
Interesting facts
The People vs. John Doe is a 1916 silent feature film about capital punishment co-directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Production
Lois Weber's script was based on one of the most notorious death penalty cases at the time. Like the character in her film, Charles Stielow was an uneducated farmhand unjustly accused of murder and sentenced to death. Attorney Grace Humiston and suffrage activist Inez Milholland Boissevain were instrumental in efforts to exonerate him. Weber's script was originally called "The Celebrated Stielow Case".
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