Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington
(2008)

Fiction

DVD

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DVD/DRAMA/MR

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1435937953 27978, 9781435937956, 043396279780
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939

Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence

Special features: Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Frank Capra, Jr. remembers -- Mr. Smith goes to Washington; vintage advertising gallery; original theatrical trailer

Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin

Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, Eugene Pallatte, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall

Not rated

DVD, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital

English dialogue, with optional English, Japanese, Korean or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned

Academy awards, 1940: Best writing, original story (Foster)

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