Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
ComedyDrama
7.832/10
|US
|en
|130 min
Release Date: 1939-10-19
Overview - After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
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Andres Gomez
8/10
Fun movie with an interesting story and characters but with an extremely naïve ending. In any case, I must to be seen by Frank Capra and a young James Stewart.
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CinemaSerf
8/10
There's an interview somewhere with Bette Davis enthusing about the skills of Claude Rains, and I think this is an example of just what she meant. He is the established senator ("Paine") who has taken the rather stoic view that representing big business some of the time allowing him to represent his electorate the rest of it is a path worth following. When his colleague suddenly dies, it falls to ...
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