Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
- governor
- washington dc
- usa
- senate
- senator
- sightseeing
- politician
- idealist
- dam
- camp
- conservative
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Jefferson Smith
Jean Arthur
Clarissa Saunders
Claude Rains
Joseph Paine
Edward Arnold
Jim Taylor
- Guy Kibbee — Governor Hopper
- Thomas Mitchell — Diz Moore
- Eugene Pallette — Chick McGann
- Beulah Bondi — Ma Smith
- H.B. Warner — Senate Majority Leader
- Harry Carey — President of the Senate
- Astrid Allwyn — Susan Paine
- Ruth Donnelly — Emma Hopper
- Grant Mitchell — Senator MacPherson
- Porter Hall — Senator Monroe
- Pierre Watkin — Senator Barnes
- Directed
- Frank Capra
- Written
- Lewis R. Foster, Sidney Buchman
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,212 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
