Script To Screen: “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
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2 min readSep 14, 2023
From the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, screenplay by Sidney Buchman, story by Lewis R. Foster.
A naive man [Jefferson Smith] is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down.
Setup: Smith has been speaking for hour after hour, filibustering a bad Senate bill.
