Film Listology: #74 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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The episode discusses the film 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' and its themes related to American politics and idealism.
Send us Fan Mail The "Film Listology" season continues with our #74 entry, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Released in 1939, Frank Capra directs Jimmy Stewart in this tale of an idealistic junior senator thrust into the cynical matrix of the Washington D. C. political establishment. Mr. Smith stands as a perennial "feel good" movie about how the American political system functions as the ultimate course corrective within an unjust world. But what happens if the film were to feel incre...
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