Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn t back down. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American English-language Comedy Drama film starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell and William Worthington. The movie is inspired from The Gentleman from Montana by Lewis R. Foster. Columbia Pictures was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Frank Capra. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is written by Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster and Myles Connolly and it is directed by Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was released on 17th October 1939 and takes a screen time of 125-126 or 130 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Sidney Buchman and Myles Connolly. Cinematography was done by Joseph Walker and editing by Gene Havlick and Al Clark. The music was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin. At the 1940 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Writing, Original Story.
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