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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: FilmFilmPublisher 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:
  • 9781435937956
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1997.M939.F736 2008
  • PN1997
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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)
Subject: 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.
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Multi-media (10-day check-out) Multi-media (10-day check-out) G. Allen Fleece Library MULTIMEDIA Non-fiction PN1997.F73 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001838693

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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 --

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.

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

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