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- Release Date: October 19, 1939
- Director: Frank Capra
- Screenwriter: Sidney Buchman
- Based on Lewis R. Foster's novel The Gentleman from Montana
- Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Harry Carey
- Run Time: 129 minutes
- Budget: 1.5 million USD
- 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Director and Actor; Won the Oscar for Best Screenplay
- Ranked 29th on AFI's list of 100 Best American Films
- Some politicians tried to block the film's release citing its images of corruption in the government as damaging to public morale
- Deemed "culturally significant" by the [http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress Library of Congress]; added to the National Film Registry in 1989
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Directed by Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Academy Award-winning film which depicts the trials and tribulations of an idealistic senate replacement who takes on political corruption in Washington.
The film is based on the Lewis R. Foster novel The Gentlemen from Montana and, in addition to Stewart, starred a bevy of well-known actors including Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold and Guy Kibbee.
When the film was released in 1939, it was attacked by the press and members of the U.S. Congress as anti-American and pro-Communist for suggesting that any corruption existed in the U.S. government. The film was outright banned in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia.
Story has it that when a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France in 1942, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was the last film some theaters showed as an act of protest against the occupation. The film is now largely recognized as a deeply patriotic American classic.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for 10 others, including Best Picture, Director and Actor.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Sites, Blogs and Message Boards
- IMDb: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Message Board
- Google Blog Search: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- The Canadian Cinephile: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Review
- AFI.com: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Capra: Excerpt from Ray Carney's American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra"
- Wikiquote: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Quotes
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