Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Jean Arthur | as | Clarissa Saunders | | James Stewart | as | Jefferson Smith | | Claude Rains | as | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine | | Edward Arnold | as | Jim Taylor | | Guy Kibbee | as | Gov. Hubert 'Happy' Hopper | | Thomas Mitchell | as | Diz Moore | | Eugene Pallette | as | Chick McGann | | Beulah Bondi | as | Ma Smith | | H.B. Warner | as | Sen. Agnew (Senate Majority Leader) | | Harry Carey | as | President of the Senate | | Astrid Allwyn | as | Susan Paine | | Ruth Donnelly | as | Emma Hopper | | Grant Mitchell | as | Sen. MacPherson (Privileges and Elections Committee) | | Porter Hall | as | Sen. Monroe (objecting to frivolity) | | Pierre Watkin | as | Sen. Barnes (Senate Minority Leader) |
| | Crew list: | | Frank Capra (Director) | | Lewis R. Foster (Writer) | | Sidney Buchman (Writer) |
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Review
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. |
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