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Un giovane leader dei boy-scout è scelto per sostituire un senatore deceduto. I politicanti pensano di maneggiarlo a loro piacere, ma il giovanotto è irriducibile nel denunciarne la corruzione. Da una storia di Lewis R. Foster, Oscar per il soggetto. Satira politica che permette a Capra, grande specchio della società americana, di assorbire e riflettere le tendenze del momento provenienti dal "basso". La Arthur è più di Stewart la vera protagonista. La demagogia di fondo è mimetizzata capacità di Capra nel fare spettacolo e dirigere gli attori. 8 nomination ai premi Oscar. Rifatto nel 1977 con Billy Jack Goes to Washington.
Romanticismo, dramma, risate e batticuore... creati dal cuore d'America!
Data rilascio : 19/10/1939
regia di Frank Capra
Budget : 1.500.000,00 $
Incasso : 9.600.000,00 $
Cast
-
James Stewart
- Jefferson Smith -
Jean Arthur
- Clarissa Saunders -
Claude Rains
- Joseph Paine -
Edward Arnold
- Jim Taylor -
Guy Kibbee
- Governor Hopper -
Thomas Mitchell
- Diz Moore -
Eugene Pallette
- Chick McGann -
Beulah Bondi
- Ma Smith -
H.B. Warner
- Senate Majority Leader -
Harry Carey
- President of the Senate -
Astrid Allwyn
- Susan Paine -
Ruth Donnelly
- Emma Hopper -
Grant Mitchell
- Senator MacPherson -
Porter Hall
- Senator Monroe -
Pierre Watkin
- Senator Barnes -
Charles Lane
- Nosey -
William Demarest
- Bill Griffith -
Dick Elliott
- Carl Cook -
Billy Watson
- Peter Hopper -
Delmar Watson
- Jimmie Hopper -
John Russell
- Hopper Boy -
Harry Watson
- Hopper Boy -
Garry Watson
- Hopper Boy -
Larry Simms
- Hopper Boy -
H.V. Kaltenborn
- Radio Broadcaster -
Russell Simpson
- Kenneth Allen (uncredited) -
Frances Gifford
- Hopper Girl (uncredited) -
Colin James Mackey
- Narrator (uncredited) -
Wilson Benge
- Hopper's Butler (uncredited) -
Dickie Jones
- Richard Jones (uncredited) -
Erville Alderson
- Handwriting Expert (uncredited) -
Frank Puglia
- Handwriting Expert (uncredited) -
Maurice Cass
- Handwriting Expert (uncredited) -
Stanley Andrews
- Senator Hodges (uncredited) -
Al Bridge
- Senator Dwight (uncredited) -
Edwin August
- Senator (uncredited) -
Edmund Cobb
- Senator Gower (uncredited) -
Sam Ash
- Senator Lancaster (uncredited) -
Harry A. Bailey
- Senator Hammett (uncredited) -
Stanley Mack
- Senator (uncredited) -
Brooks Benedict
- Senate Clerk (uncredited) -
Wade Boteler
- Family Man (uncredited) -
Dorothy Comingore
- Woman at Station (uncredited) -
Chester Conklin
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Gino Corrado
- Barber (uncredited) -
Ann Doran
- Paine's Secretary (uncredited) -
Robert Emmett Keane
- Editor (uncredited) -
Matt McHugh
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Kathryn Bates
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Frank Austin
- Inventor (uncredited) -
William Arnold
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Tommy Baker
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Robert Sterling
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Dub Taylor
- Reporter (uncredited) -
George Chandler
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Porter (uncredited) -
Jack Carson
- Sweeney Farrell (uncredited) -
Tommy Bupp
- Cheering Boy (uncredited) -
Dora Clement
- Mrs. McGann (uncredited) -
Bert Moorhouse
- Man in Senate Building (uncredited) -
Harry C. Bradley
- Arthur Kim (uncredited) -
Lynton Brent
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Ed Brewer
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Harlan Briggs
- Mr. Edwards (uncredited) -
Harry Burkhardt
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Frederick Burton
- Senator Dearhorn (uncredited) -
Georgia Caine
- Third Radio Speaker (uncredited) -
Ken Carpenter
- Announcer (uncredited) -
Burr Caruth
- Townsend (uncredited) -
Allan Cavan
- Ragner (uncredited) -
Eddy Chandler
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Davison Clark
- Committeeman (uncredited) -
Richard Clucas
- (uncredited) -
Shirley Coates
- Assistant Bartender (uncredited) -
Eddie Coke
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Hal Cooke
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Alec Craig
- Speaker (uncredited) -
Anne Cornwall
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
George Cooper
- Waiter (uncredited) -
Georgie Cooper
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Jack Cooper
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Nick Copeland
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Vernon Dent
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Maurice Costello
- Diggs (uncredited) -
Beatrice Curtis
- Paine's Secretary (uncredited) -
Lew Davis
- Senate Clerk (uncredited) -
Dulcie Day
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Wally Dean
- Paine's Friend (uncredited) -
Harry Depp
- Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited) -
Byron Foulger
- Hopper's Secretary (uncredited) -
Helen Jerome Eddy
- Paine's Secretary (uncredited) -
Douglas Evans
- Francis Scott Key (uncredited) -
Joe Devlin
- Waiter (uncredited) -
Clyde Dilson
- Reporter (uncredited) -
John Dilson
- Secretary (uncredited) -
Neal Dodd
- Senate Chaplain (uncredited) -
Lester Dorr
- Taylor's Stooge (uncredited) -
Robert Dudley
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Edward Earle
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Jack Egan
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Eddie Fetherston
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Mabel Forrest
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Gladys Gale
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Jack Gardner
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Mary Gordon
- Woman (uncredited) -
June Gittelson
- Woman at Station (uncredited) -
Lorna Gray
- Woman at Station (uncredited) -
Harry Hayden
- First Radio Announcer (uncredited) -
Louis Jean Heydt
- Soapbox Speaker (uncredited) -
John Ince
- Senator Fernwick (uncredited) -
Frank Jaquet
- Senator Byron (uncredited) -
Philo McCullough
- Senator Albert (uncredited) -
Wright Kramer
- Senator Carlton (uncredited) -
Henry Hebert
- Senator (uncredited) -
Fred Hoose
- Senator (uncredited) -
Richard Kipling
- Senator (uncredited) -
Roger Haliday
- Senate Guard (uncredited) -
Wilfred Hari
- House Boy (uncredited) -
Philip Hurlic
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Olaf Hytten
- Butler (uncredited) -
Lloyd Ingraham
- Committeeman (uncredited) -
Mitchell Ingraham
- (uncredited) -
Dick Jensen
- Hoodlum (uncredited) -
John Lester Johnson
- Butler (uncredited) -
Eddie Kane
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Donald Kerr
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Milton Kibbee
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Joe King
- Summers (uncredited) -
Evalyn Knapp
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Paul Kruger
- Bodyguard (uncredited) -
Bobby Larson
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Billy Lechner
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Jackie Lowe
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
P.H. Levy
- Rabbi (uncredited) -
Vera Lewis
- Mrs. Edwards (uncredited) -
Jack Lindquist
- Chorus Member (uncredited) -
George Lloyd
- Hoodlum (uncredited) -
Arthur Loft
- Chief Clerk (uncredited) -
Jack Low
- Hoodlum (uncredited) -
Jimmie Lucas
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Mary MacLaren
- Head Sister (uncredited) -
Hank Mann
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Margaret Mann
- Nun (uncredited) -
Eric Mayne
- Man in Senate Building (uncredited) -
Ralph McCullough
- Assistant Bartender (uncredited) -
George McKay
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Lafe McKee
- Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited) -
Ben Taggart
- Pompous Man (uncredited) -
Field Norton
- Pompous Man (uncredited) -
Wilfred Lucas
- Pompous Man (uncredited) -
Sammy McKim
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
James McNamara
- Reporter (uncredited) -
William Newell
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Robert Middlemass
- Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited) -
James Millican
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Howard M. Mitchell
- Shoe Salesman (uncredited) -
Charles R. Moore
- Porter (uncredited) -
Gene Morgan
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Robert Morgan
- Senate Clerk (uncredited) -
Ray Nichols
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Alex Novinsky
- Foreign Diplomat (uncredited) -
Frank O'Connor
- Senator Alfred (uncredited) -
Frank Otto
- Fisk (uncredited) -
Joe Palma
- Hoodlum (uncredited) -
Spencer Quinn
- (uncredited) -
Tom Quinn
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Ed Randolph
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Charles Regan
- Hoodlum (uncredited) -
Jack Rice
- Lang (uncredited) -
Wyndham Standing
- Senator Ashman (uncredited) -
Ferris Taylor
- Senator Carlisle (uncredited) -
Jack Richardson
- Senator Manchester (uncredited) -
Walter Soderling
- Senator Pickett (uncredited) -
Harry Stafford
- Senator Atwater (uncredited) -
Victor Travis
- Senator Grainger (uncredited) -
Carl Stockdale
- Senator Burdette (uncredited) -
Bob Walker
- Senator Holland (uncredited) -
Henry Roquemore
- Senator (uncredited) -
Craig Stevens
- Senate Reporter (uncredited) -
Paul Stanton
- Flood a Newsman (uncredited) -
Johnny Russell
- Otis Hopper (uncredited) -
Walter Sande
- Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited) -
Frank M. Thomas
- Hendricks (uncredited) -
Harry Strang
- Bodyguard (uncredited) -
Harry Tenbrook
- Bodyguard (uncredited) -
Dave Willock
- Senate Guard (uncredited) -
Lloyd Whitlock
- Schultz (uncredited) -
John Tyrrell
- (uncredited) -
Frederick Vroom
- Paine's Friend (uncredited) -
Charles Sullivan
- Cab Driver (uncredited) -
Arthur Thalasso
- Doorman (uncredited) -
Edward Thomas
- Butler (uncredited) -
Laura Treadwell
- Mrs. Taylor (uncredited) -
Layne Tom Jr.
- Boy Ranger (uncredited) -
Myonne Walsh
- Jane Hopper (uncredited) -
Billy Wayne
- Reporter (uncredited) -
Max Waizmann
- Photographer (uncredited) -
John Ward
- Photographer (uncredited) -
Jane Loofbourrow
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Blanche Payson
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Emma Tansey
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Bess Wade
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Florence Wix
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Eleanor Wood
- Committeewoman (uncredited) -
Jesse Graves
- Black Committeeman (uncredited) -
Gus Glassmire
- Angry Committee Member (uncredited) -
Larry Steers
- Committeeman (uncredited) -
Landers Stevens
- Committeeman (uncredited) -
William Worthington
- Committeeman (uncredited) -
Edward Biby
- Foreign Diplomat (uncredited) -
Count Stefenelli
- Foreign Diplomat (uncredited) -
David Wade
- (uncredited) -
Frank McLure
- Senator (uncredited)