Vernon Dent

Washington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?

Stenograf Alice Sycamore, çalıştığı şirketin başkan yardımcısı da olan patronu Tony Kirby’ye aşıktır, seçkin şirketse patronunun açgözlü babası Anthony P.Kirby’ye aittir. Baba Kirby, silah ticaretinde tekel olmaya çalışmakta ve 12 blokluk bir bölgede son ev olan Alice’in dedesi Martin Vanderhof’un evini satın alması gerekmektedir. Bununla birlikte, Martin, bireyleri para yerine arkadaş edinmeye ve eğlenmeye önem veren anarşik ve uçuk bir ailenin reisidir. Tony, Alice’e evlenme teklif ettiğinde; basit ve çılgın ailesinin züppe Kirby’lerle tanışmasının zaruri olduğunu söyler, Tony kararlaştırılandan bir gün önce Alice’i ve ailesini ziyaret etmeye karar verir. Kaçınılmaz bir sınıf ve yaşam tarzı çatışması vardır, Kirby’ler Sycamore’ları küçümseyerek reddeder ve Alice, Kirby ailesinin hayatını değiştirerek, Tony ile olan ilişkisini bitirir...

Yolculuk edeceği geminin saatler sonra kalkacağını öğrenen hareketli ve heyecanlı bir mizaca sahip olan Bonnie (Jean Arthur), zamanını, Güney Amerika’nın İngilizce konuşulan tek barında, Geoff Carter (Cary Grant)’ın yerinde geçirmeye karar verir. Küçük çapta bir posta uçağı hava alanına sahip olan ve aynı zamanda alanın işletmeciliğini de yapan Geoff, kuralcı ve katı yapısı yüzünden o gece bir pilotun ölümüne sebep olur.Olumsuz hava koşullarına aldırmadan uçuş izni veren Geoff, pilotun ölümünden etkilenen genç kadına, bunun bir iş kazası olduğunu anlatır. Patron Geoff’un vurdumduymaz tavırlarına isyan eden Bonnie, gece, genç adamla muhabbet etme fırsatı yakalar ve o an Geoff’a aşık olur.

Buster, MGM Newsreels'in güzel bir ofis çalışanına delicesine aşık olduktan sonra ferrotipi portre fotoğraçılığını bırakıp elden düşme bir kamera alır ve çalışmalarıyla aşık olduğu kızı (ve MGM'yi) etkilemek için kameraman olarak işe başlar.

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.

The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.