


SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra’s, Stewart’s and Columbia’s finest films. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar® nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Writing, Original Story), MR.

This award-winning, 1939 classic is about an idealistic, small-town American senator who heads to Washington, DC, and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians who are out to destroy him. Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra’s MR.
