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Mr Smith Goes to Washington, with Aidan Byrne (#12)
Aidan Byrne joins Mark and Cory to watch the classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington. It's a film full of shameless emotional manipulation, especially from some of the children in it. They marvel at the performances of Jimmy Stewart, Claude Rains and especially Jean Arthur, wonder if this film has an anti-FDR message, and Mark takes handwriting experts to task.
You can find Aidan on Blue Sky as Plashing Vole.
Next time, we're reading Ellen Wilkinson's The Division Bell Mystery.
You can view the IMDb page for Mr Smith Goes to Washington here.
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