Emory Cinematheque Free Film Screening: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”

(Frank Capra, U.S.A., black and white, 1939, 129 min.) One of Capra’s best loved films of the 1930s, “Mr. Smith” pits an innocent James Stewart against a corrupt Washington D.C. in a tale that simultaneously celebrates American democracy. With Jean Arthur and Claude Rains, as well as front-rank array of Hollywood character actors, including Eugene Palette, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, and Thomas Mitchell.