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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

ComedyDrama

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · 129 min · United States · English

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) has a goodrecmovies Score of 77.7, ranked #475 among movies on goodrecmovies (goodrecmovies tier: great). It's a Comedy and Drama movie rated 8.1/10 on IMDb from 131,007 votes. Updated

77.7goodrecmovies Score
#475rank on siterank
14%top
★ 8.1IMDb · 131k

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.

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James Stewart
Jefferson Smith
Jean Arthur
Saunders
Claude Rains
Senator Joseph Harrison Paine
Edward Arnold
Jim Taylor
Guy Kibbee
Governor Hubert 'Happy' Hopper
Thomas Mitchell
Diz Moore
Eugene Pallette
Chick McGann
Beulah Bondi
Ma Smith
H.B. Warner
Senator Agnew - Majority Leader
Harry Carey
President of the Senate

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