During the credits, a scrapbook""s contents were viewed, including various news articles from theNational Tattlertabloid, sometimes commented upon by its reporter Freddy Lounds: "Local Doctor Wounded, FBI Agent in Extremely Critical Condition - Details Unclear in Bizarre Bloodbath," "Dr.[Note: Lancaster previously won Best Actor for his role inElmer Gantry (1960).] Its box-office revenue (domestic) was only $12.73 million (against a budget of $6.2 million), making it the lowest-earning film of the five Best Picture nominees.The most successful film of the year was Paramount""s action-adventureRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Titles Sequence:The romantic crime drama opened with a closeup of fresh lemons being sliced into quarters by a young and pretty woman.Plot SynopsisThe film opened on a dark night of torrential rain in the South in the 1950s, as a truck was transporting chain gang prisoners.Many have commented about the movie industry""s common early practice of "white-washing" - in other words, to use Caucasians to inappropriately play the roles of Asians (a practice specifically known as "yellowface").That""s where you""re all wrong! Francis of Assisi had it all down.He knew." Teresa quipped: "What are you talkin"" about? St.Francis didn""t run numbers.BackgroundMeet John Doe(1941) is Frank Capra""s wonderful, message-laden populist melodramatic tale about the common man.