Audience: Not rated. Special features: Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Frank Capra, Jr. remembers Mr. Smith goes to Washington; vintage advertising gallery; original theatrical trailer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Title from container. Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi.
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.
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