Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screen play by Sidney Buchman ; story by Lewis R. Foster ; directed by Frank Capra. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 27978 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese Publication details: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [(c)2008.Description: 1 videodisc (circa 130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1435937953
9781435937956

Uniform titles:

Mr. Smith goes to Washington (Motion picture)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PN1997.M939.F736 2008
PN1997.M77.M939.F736 2008

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Production credits:

Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin.

Awards:

Academy awards, 1940: Best writing, original story (Foster)

Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall.Summary: 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.

Item type: Multi-media (10-day check-out)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multi-media (10-day check-out)	G. Allen Fleece Library Multimedia - Second Floor	Non-fiction	PN1997.F73 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001838693

English dialogue with optional English, Japanese, Korean or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall.

Director of photography, Joseph Walker; film editors, Gene Havlick, Al Clark; musical score, Dimitri Tiomkin.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.

Special features: Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Frank Capra, Jr. remembers Mr. Smith goes to Washington; vintage advertising gallery; original theatrical trailer.

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.