Mr. Smith va a Washington

Titolo originale: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Regia: Frank Capra |
Anno: 1939
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma
Tag: governor | washington dc, usa | senate | senator | sightseeing | politician | idealist | dam | camp | conservative | black and white | disillusionment | political corruption | integrity | usa politics | determination | filibuster | walkout | political machine | smear campaign | expulsion attempt | inspirational |
Cast: James Stewart | Jean Arthur | Claude Rains | Edward Arnold | Guy Kibbee | Thomas Mitchell | Eugene Pallette | Beulah Bondi | H.B. Warner | Harry Carey | Astrid Allwyn | Ruth Donnelly | Grant Mitchell | Porter Hall | Pierre Watkin | Charles Lane | William Demarest | Dick Elliott | Billy Watson | Delmar Watson | John Russell | Harry Watson | Garry Watson | Larry Simms | H.V. Kaltenborn | Russell Simpson | Frances Gifford | Colin James Mackey | Wilson Benge | Dickie Jones | Erville Alderson | Frank Puglia | Maurice Cass | Stanley Andrews | Al Bridge | Edwin August | Edmund Cobb | Sam Ash | Harry A. Bailey | Stanley Mack | Brooks Benedict | Wade Boteler | Dorothy Comingore | Chester Conklin | Gino Corrado | Ann Doran | Robert Emmett Keane | Matt McHugh | Kathryn Bates | Frank Austin | William Arnold | Tommy Baker | Robert Sterling | Dub Taylor | George Chandler | Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Jack Carson | Tommy Bupp | Dora Clement | Bert Moorhouse | Harry C. Bradley | Lynton Brent | Ed Brewer | Harlan Briggs | Harry Burkhardt | Frederick Burton | Georgia Caine | Ken Carpenter | Burr Caruth | Allan Cavan | Eddy Chandler | Davison Clark | Richard Clucas | Shirley Coates | Eddie Coke | Hal Cooke | Alec Craig | Anne Cornwall | George Cooper | Georgie Cooper | Jack Cooper | Nick Copeland | Vernon Dent | Maurice Costello | Beatrice Curtis | Lew Davis | Dulcie Day | Wally Dean | Harry Depp | Byron Foulger | Helen Jerome Eddy | Douglas Evans | Joe Devlin | Clyde Dilson | John Dilson | Neal Dodd | Lester Dorr | Robert Dudley | Edward Earle | Jack Egan | Eddie Fetherston | Mabel Forrest | Gladys Gale | Jack Gardner | Mary Gordon | June Gittelson | Lorna Gray | Harry Hayden | Louis Jean Heydt | John Ince | Frank Jaquet | Philo McCullough | Wright Kramer | Henry Hebert | Fred Hoose | Richard Kipling | Roger Haliday | Wilfred Hari | Philip Hurlic | Olaf Hytten | Lloyd Ingraham | Mitchell Ingraham | Dick Jensen | John Lester Johnson | Eddie Kane | Donald Kerr | Milton Kibbee | Joe King | Evalyn Knapp | Paul Kruger | Bobby Larson | Billy Lechner | Jackie Lowe | P.H. Levy | Vera Lewis | Jack Lindquist | George Lloyd | Arthur Loft | Jack Low | Jimmie Lucas | Mary MacLaren | Hank Mann | Margaret Mann | Eric Mayne | Ralph McCullough | George McKay | Lafe McKee | Ben Taggart | Field Norton | Wilfred Lucas | Sammy McKim | James McNamara | William Newell | Robert Middlemass | James Millican | Howard M. Mitchell | Charles R. Moore | Gene Morgan | Robert Morgan | Ray Nichols | Alex Novinsky | Frank O'Connor | Frank Otto | Joe Palma | Spencer Quinn | Tom Quinn | Ed Randolph | Charles Regan | Jack Rice | Wyndham Standing | Ferris Taylor | Jack Richardson | Walter Soderling | Harry Stafford | Victor Travis | Carl Stockdale | Bob Walker | Henry Roquemore | Craig Stevens | Paul Stanton | Johnny Russell | Walter Sande | Frank M. Thomas | Harry Strang | Harry Tenbrook | Dave Willock | Lloyd Whitlock | John Tyrrell | Frederick Vroom | Charles Sullivan | Arthur Thalasso | Edward Thomas | Laura Treadwell | Layne Tom Jr. | Myonne Walsh | Billy Wayne | Max Waizmann | John Ward | Jane Loofbourrow | Blanche Payson | Emma Tansey | Bess Wade | Florence Wix | Eleanor Wood | Jesse Graves | Gus Glassmire | Larry Steers | Landers Stevens | William Worthington | Edward Biby | Count Stefenelli | David Wade | Frank McLure |

Alla morte di un senatore, Jefferson Smith viene affiancato a Joseph Paine che è capo di una macchina politica corrotta. Con Saunders come segretaria di Jeff, Paine spera di ottenere l'approvazione della costruzione di una diga inutile, facendo concentrare Smith su un campo di boy scout. Quando Saunders s'innamora di Jeff, lui minaccia di esporre la truffa, ma viene incastrato da Paine. Con un discorso eroico ed estenuante però, Jeff induce la confessione di Paine e diventa un eroe nazionale e marito di Saunders.