Daily Dialogue — October 2, 2014

“I will not yield!”

— Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), screen play by Sidney Buchman, story by Lewis R. Foster

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Politics.

Trivia: In 1942, when a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France, the title theaters chose Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) for their last movie before the ban went into effect. One Paris theater reportedly screened the film nonstop for thirty days prior to the ban.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the truly great political films in American cinema.

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