Storyline
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Cast
John Russell, Dub Taylor, Thomas Mitchell, Louis Jean Heydt, Eddy Chandler, Richard Clucas, Gino Corrado, Lester Dorr, Margaret Mann, Spencer Quinn, Harry Strang, William Demarest, Charles Lane, James Stewart, Dorothy Comingore, Maurice Costello, Bert Moorhouse, Sam Ash, Harry A. Bailey, Jack Egan, Harry Burkhardt, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Coke, Walter Sande, Milton Kibbee, John Dilson, Robert Dudley, Jesse Graves, Henry Hebert, Mitchell Ingraham, Frank McLure, Field Norton, Frank O'Connor, Landers Stevens, Dickie Jones, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner, Larry Simms, Stanley Andrews, Brooks Benedict, Al Bridge, Lew Davis, Dick Elliott, Eddie Fetherston, Eddie Kane, Charles Sullivan, Wyndham Standing, Dave Willock, Claude Rains, Olaf Hytten, Frank Puglia, Joe Palma, Billy Wayne, Alec Craig, Eugene Pallette, Russell Simpson, Guy Kibbee, Harry Tenbrook, Craig Stevens, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall, H.V. Kaltenborn, Pierre Watkin, Billy Watson, Delmar Watson, Harry Watson, Garry Watson, Frances Gifford, Colin James Mackey, Wilson Benge, Erville Alderson, Maurice Cass, Edwin August, Stanley Mack, Wade Boteler, Chester Conklin, Ann Doran, Robert Emmett Keane, Matt McHugh, Kathryn Bates, Frank Austin, William Arnold, Tommy Baker, Robert Sterling, George Chandler, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Jack Carson, Tommy Bupp, Dora Clement, Harry C. Bradley, Lynton Brent, Ed Brewer, Harlan Briggs, Frederick Burton, Georgia Caine, Ken Carpenter, Burr Caruth, Allan Cavan, Davison Clark, Shirley Coates, Hal Cooke, Anne Cornwall, George Cooper, Georgie Cooper, Jack Cooper, Nick Copeland, Vernon Dent, Beatrice Curtis, Dulcie Day, Wally Dean, Harry Depp, Byron Foulger, Helen Jerome Eddy, Douglas Evans, Joe Devlin, Clyde Dilson, Neal Dodd, Edward Earle, Mabel Forrest, Gladys Gale, Jack Gardner, Mary Gordon, June Gittelson, Lorna Gray, Harry Hayden, John Ince, Frank Jaquet, Philo McCullough, Wright Kramer, Fred Hoose, Richard Kipling, Roger Haliday, Wilfred Hari, Philip Hurlic, Lloyd Ingraham, Dick Jensen, John Lester Johnson, Donald Kerr, Joe King, Evalyn Knapp, Paul Kruger, Bobby Larson, Billy Lechner, Jackie Lowe, P.H. Levy, Vera Lewis, Jack Lindquist, George Lloyd, Arthur Loft, Jack Low, Jimmie Lucas, Mary MacLaren, Hank Mann, Eric Mayne, Ralph McCullough, George McKay, Lafe McKee, Ben Taggart, Wilfred Lucas, Sammy McKim, James McNamara, William Newell, Robert Middlemass, James Millican, Howard M. Mitchell, Charles R. Moore, Gene Morgan, Robert Morgan, Ray Nichols, Alex Novinsky, Frank Otto, Tom Quinn, Ed Randolph, Charles Regan, Jack Rice, Ferris Taylor, Jack Richardson, Walter Soderling, Harry Stafford, Victor Travers, Carl Stockdale, Robert Walker, Henry Roquemore, Paul Stanton, Johnny Russell, Frank M. Thomas, Lloyd Whitlock, John Tyrrell, Frederick Vroom, Arthur Thalasso, Edward Thomas, Laura Treadwell, Layne Tom Jr., Myonne Walsh, Max Waizmann, John Ward, Jane Loofbourrow, Blanche Payson, Emma Tansey, Bess Wade, Florence Wix, Eleanor Wood, Gus Glassmire, Larry Steers, William Worthington, Edward Biby, Count Stefenelli, David Wade
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Reviews
100
Empire
Demonstrating that the greatest political evil is indifference, this appeal to a world on the verge of war has lost none of its relevance.
100
There’s tremendous dramatic impact threaded throughout the picture, interwoven with those deft human episodes which have become familiar with Capra’s direction in previous pictures. He keys the motivation of his basic premise without wasting time, and then carries it through vigorously.
100
[Capra] has paced it beautifully and held it in perfect balance, weaving his romance lightly through the political phases of his comedy, flicking a sardonic eye over the Washington scene, racing out to the hinterland to watch public opinion being made and returning miraculously in time to tie all the story threads together into a serious and meaningful dramatic pattern.
100
While MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is the most moral of films, it is so artfully filled with real emotion that it never becomes heavy-handed.
90
The acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. Its real hero is not calfy Jeff Smith, but the things he believes, as embodied in the hero of U. S. democracy's first crisis, Abraham Lincoln.
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