The title character gets his job over Horace Miller, the favorite of Jim Taylor, and popular choice Henry Hill.
Most German theaters chose this as the last film screened before a Nazi ban on Hollywood movies took effect. It was originally planned with a much longer ending that included depictions of a hometown parade, but after a test screening, these were cut in favor of a final shot of a grinning Harry Carey. The title character gets his job over Horace Miller, the favorite of Jim Taylor, and popular choice Henry Hill. He is intended to be an oblivious dupe to Taylor's graft plan, along with Senator Paine, but when those plans run afoul of a bill funding a boys camp, the protagonist protests, culminating in a filibuster and Paine's confession. FTP, name this 1939 Columbia film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claude Rains, Jean Arthur, and, as the title character, Jimmy Stewart.
Most German theaters chose this as the last film screened before a Nazi ban on Hollywood movies took effect.
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