B00003L9CJ

043396279698

1939

1939-10-19

129

2h 9min

Top rated movie #192 , Won 1 Oscar, 6 wins & 16 nominations total

Frank Capra

Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, Myles Connolly

James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains

Frank Capra

Dimitri Tiomkin

Joseph Walker

Al Clark, Gene Havlick

Lionel Banks

Robert Kalloch

Faye Hanlin, Helen Hunt, William Knight, Fred B. Phillips

Arthur S. Black Jr., Rex Bailey, Richard McWhorter, Charles Vidor

Walter Holscher, George Montgomery, Cary Odell, Jack Wrenn

Edward Bernds, John P. Livadary

Fred Jackman Jr.

Slavko Vorkapich, John Hoffman

George Hager, William Jolley, George F. Kelley, Al Layter, Irving Lippman, James Lloyd, Enzo A. Martinelli, Adolph L. Schafer, Victor Scheurich

Forrest T. Butler, Ray Howell, Eugene Joseff, Roselle Novello

Sheri Eisenberg

Morris Stoloff, R.H. Bassett, Ben Oakland

James D. Preston, Joseph Sistrom, Harold Winston

Comedy, Drama

Columbia Pictures

USA

English

Passed

8.1

115543

73

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster s unpublished story The Gentleman from Montana . The film was controversial when it was first released, but successful at the box office, and it made Stewart a major star. It was also loosely based on the life of Montana U.S. Senator Burton Wheeler, who underwent a similar experience when he was investigating the Warren Harding administration.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, winning Best Original Story. Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant .

$1,900,000 (estimated)

$83,205

$144,738

$144,738

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