sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-06-04 01:00 am

How many young men would take scythes and go mowing

I know Frank Capra is supposed to be the starry-eyed pusher of populism, but the worldview of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is amazingly bleak.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-06-04 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'd not thought about that movie in years, but from what I recollect of it I think you're right.