Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

“For Mr. Capra is a believer in democracy as well as a stout-hearted humorist. Most directors would not have attempted to express that faith otherwise than in terms of drama or melodrama. Capra...has had to employ the only medium he knows. And his comedy has become, in consequence, not merely a brilliant jest, but a stirring and even inspiring testament to liberty and freedom, to simplicity and honesty and to the innate dignity of just the average man.”