Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939. USA. Directed by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman. With James Stuart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold. In Capra's classic tale of idealism and corruption in Washington, D.C., Stuart plays the naive Mr. Smith, appointed to fill Wisconsin's vacant Senate seat by the governor. Instead of doing as he's told, however, Smith ends up making trouble for his corrupt fellow officials. 120 min.