Reply #10: It's been a while since I've watched it but ...

[Red State Blues]

I've never heard anyone refute the oft heard position that Potter was John D. Rockefeller.

I also remember a speech where George talks of the potters of the world treating people like cattle and then later, when he is talking about going to Europe saying that he would be happy to go with the cattle. Pretty obvious to me.

Years ago, when I thought I was one of the only people who had not seen the movie I sat down one day and watched it straight through on an excellent quality laserdisc. I highly recommend to anyone who has not seen it to go through the extra effort to rent or buy the best copy they can find and watch it without all the commercial interruptions, (and recommend this to people who HAVE seen this before as well). The whole movie really is all about politics, there's an amazing amount of "meat" there that gets overlooked as a piece of holiday fluff.

"Mr. Smith goes to Washington" deserves the same treatment.