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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 9, 2008
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Stewart & Jean Arthur | |
Performer: | Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall, Pierre Watkin, Charles Lane, William Demarest, Jack Carson, Maurice Costello, Russell Simpson, Stanley Andrews, Al Bridge, Edmund Cobb, Vera Lewis, Ann Doran & Lloyd Whitlock | |
Directed by | Frank Capra | |
Edited by | Gene Havlick & Al Clark | |
Screenwriting by | Sidney Buchman | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Art Direction by | Lionel Banks | |
Story by | Lewis R. Foster | |
Produced by | Frank Capra | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Walker |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1939 -
Best Original Screenplay: Lewis R. Foster
Entertainment Reviews:
...An enjoyable fable...
Total Film
Quintessential Capra - popular wish-fulfilment served up with such fast-talking comic panache that you don't have time to question its cornball idealism.
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Time Out
It is a great film, even though it is not a great story, acted by a magnificent cast, so that Capra can afford to fling away on tiny parts men like Eugene Pallette, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell and Harry Carey.
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The Spectator
It's Capra's genuine sense of hope that buoys the film and leaves the audience invigorated to go out and fight a good fight no matter what the odds.
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KPBS.org
One of Hollywood's most perceptive political satires...
Sight and Sound
One of the finest and consistently interesting dramas of the season.
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Variety
There is an honesty, an emotional truth to his filibuster scenes in Mr. Smith that begs repeated viewing and examination by actors looking to go deeper than their own bags of trickery.
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Cinema Siren
Product Description:
Two slimy fat-cat legislators recruit Jefferson Smith, an innocent and staunchly principled Montana scout leader, as the state's new Senator, hoping to exploit his naviete and community pride to bring home pork-barrel funds. Once he ascends to Capitol Hill, however, Mr. Smith finds nothing but deep-rooted corruption in Washington, D.C., and, absolutely refusing to submit to cynicism, he tirelessly takes the message of the American people right to their out-of-touch representatives. Based on Lewis R. Foster's novel THE GENTLEMAN FROM MONTANA. Academy Award Nominations: 11, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (James Stewart), Best Supporting Actor (Harry Carey). Academy Awards: Best Original Story (Lewis R. Foster).
Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, theaward-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicans out to destroy him. When Frank Capradecided to film the novel "The Gentleman From Montana", he ran into an obstacle Director Rouben Mamoulian owned the rights to the story. Unwilling to sell, Mamoulian eventually traded the material toColumbia on the condition that he be allowed to direct Golden Boy. As Capra began working on the film, now called MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, it was suggested that Gary Copper, the star of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, take the lead. Capra selected Jimmy Stewart instead and the film solidified Stewart's movie career, garnering him his first Academy Award(r) nomination. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar(r) nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Motion Picture Story), MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra's, Stewart's and Columbia's finest films. It also marked the end of an era. It was Capra's final film for the studio.
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- UPC: 043396279780
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