Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Frank Capra
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Date
- / Cancelled / Sold out
Location
Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationJefferson Smith, a countryside leader of the Boy Rangers scouting group, goes to Washington to become a senator. Benefiting from Smith’s popular image, the party leaders take advantage of the young man’s naivety and lack of experience, moulding him to their interests.
Little by little, Smith realizes that he has been caught up in a web of corruption and moral degradation, which ruins his beliefs about the character of the country’s leaders.
Image: Mr Smith Goes to Washington © 1939 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Biographies
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Pedro Mexia
Pedro Mexia was born in Lisbon in 1972. He is a literary critic and columnist for Expresso and co-author of a political commentary program on SIC Notícias. A cultural advisor to the President of the Republic, he previously served as deputy director and interim director of Cinemateca. He has published volumes of chronicles, diaries, poetry and theater, and won the Grand Prize for Chronicles from the Portuguese Writers’ Association. He is co-director of Granta in Portuguese and coordinates Tinta-da-china’s poetry collection.
Credits
Director
Frank Capra
Duration
129 minutes
Genre
Comedy/Drama
Cast
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
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