Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

We begin our Friday Night at the movies tomorrow. We will be watching the 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" starring Jimmy Stewart, directed by Frank Capra. I thought we'd open our year with a "political" classic given the season. We are getting our movie via Netflicks and it should be in the mail today. I am hoping we get the colorized version.

Natalie was hoping for a movie with some romance in it, but I think she will have to wait until next week...although I don't think "The Great Escape" has any either.

Here is a summary of the plot:

Appointed by the governor of his state to team up with presidential hopeful, Senator Joseph Paine, Jefferson Smith heads to Washington where he discovers the many foibles of the political process. With an earnest goal to establish the Boy Rangers as a national boy’s camp, Smith meets confrontation via corrupt political aficionado Jim Taylor who sets out to undermine Smith every step of the way.