Blue,
You are a film scholar!
Blue Velvet writes:
In keeping with the recent spate of Olbermann “special comments,” the following came to mind.
Good one. Jimmy Stewart sings better than Bwana, but Bwana does a good fire and brimstone. He scares Toaster sometimes.
When it was first released, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was attacked as an anti-American pro-Communist film for its portrayal of corruption in the American government.
The film was banned in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Francist Spain. Dubbing was used to alter the message of the film to conform with official ideology, according to Capra.
In 1942, when a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France, the title theaters chose Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for their last movie before the ban went into effect. One Paris theater owner reportedly screened the film nonstop for thirty days prior to the ban.
