Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington /
Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington / [print]
Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screen play by Sidney Buchman ; story by Lewis R. Foster ; directed by Frank Capra.
- Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, (c)2008.
- 1 videodisc (circa 130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Frank Capra, Jr. remembers --
Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin. Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin.
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.
Not rated.
Academy awards, 1940: Best writing, original story (Foster)
9781435937956
27978 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
United States. Congress. Senate --Drama.
PN1997.M939.F736 2008 PN1997
Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Frank Capra, Jr. remembers --
Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin. Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin.
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.
Not rated.
Academy awards, 1940: Best writing, original story (Foster)
9781435937956
27978 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
United States. Congress. Senate --Drama.
PN1997.M939.F736 2008 PN1997