Day by day

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

// 1939 // Couleur // 129'
English with French subtitles

Jefferson Smith is a forthright scout leader who finds himself projected into the US Senate without any knowledge of the frame-up that got him there.
Mr Smith goes to Washington sets the “simple” man against the man in power, the countryside against the city, the individual against the group. In the title role, James Stewart offers a remarkable interpretation of a good-natured person who becomes devilishly cunning and intractable when faced with corruption.
Frank Capra champions democracy in a film that reveals the hidden wheels of power and the steamroller mechanics that crush humanist values. The film was blacklisted in the 1950s.

Frank Capra