Directed by	Frank Capra
Screenplay by	Sidney Buchman Myles Connolly (uncredited)
Based on	"The Gentleman from Montana" (unpub. story) by Lewis R. Foster
Produced by	Frank Capra (uncredited)
Starring	James Stewart Jean Arthur Claude Rains Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Thomas Mitchell Beulah Bondi
Narrated by	Colin James Mackey (uncredited)
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Edited by	Gene Havlick Al Clark
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	17 October 1939 (Washington, DC, premiere)
Running time	125-126 or 130 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million
Box office	$9 million
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

What we believe in

Jefferson Smith was appointed to replace a Senator who died because he was naïve enough they thought he’d be easy to manipulate. The trouble was he was also idealistic.

For the censor at the Hays Office, it was a question whether the film was disrespectful of the institution of the Senate or whether it honored the institution because, in the film, honesty and the will of the people prevail over wealth and corruption.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

What we believe in

Respect for the institution