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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">Adventure in Washington</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg/220px-Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg/330px-Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Adventure_in_Washington_film_poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="358" data-file-height="270" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_E._Green" title="Alfred E. Green">Alfred E. Green</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Spencer" title="Jeanne Spencer">Jeanne Spencer</a><br />Albert Benham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Caesar" title="Arthur Caesar">Arthur Caesar</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lewis_R._Foster" title="Lewis R. Foster">Lewis R. Foster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Rogers" title="Charles R. Rogers">Charles R. Rogers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Bruce" title="Virginia Bruce">Virginia Bruce</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gene_Reynolds" title="Gene Reynolds">Gene Reynolds</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Sharp_(cinematographer)" title="Henry Sharp (cinematographer)">Henry Sharp</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Allen_G._Siegler" title="Allen G. Siegler">Allen G. Siegler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Sweeney_(film_editor)" title="James Sweeney (film editor)">James Sweeney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/W._Franke_Harling" title="W. Franke Harling">W. Franke Harling</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data">Columbia Pictures</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>May 30, 1941<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1941-05-30</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">84 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Adventure in Washington</b></i> is a 1941 American <a href="/wiki/Drama_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Drama film">drama film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_E._Green" title="Alfred E. Green">Alfred E. Green</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Bruce" title="Virginia Bruce">Virginia Bruce</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Reynolds" title="Gene Reynolds">Gene Reynolds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plot is about an unlikely <a href="/wiki/Page_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Page of the United States Senate">U.S. Senate page boy</a> whose misadventures in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, cause a Congressional scandal. </p><p>Based on a story by Jeanne Spencer and Albert Benham,<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the film was originally conceived in 1940 as a sequel to <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a>' hit film of the previous year set in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Smith_Goes_to_Washington" title="Mr. Smith Goes to Washington">Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> in mind for the part of a juvenile delinquent who becomes a Senate page.<sup id="cite_ref-Gonzalez_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gonzalez-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gene Reynolds eventually got the role of the page when filming began in 1941. Virginia Bruce plays a female radio reporter covering the Capitol Hill beat, who fights for acceptance as a legitimate journalist in a male-dominated arena. Herbert Marshall's character as a prominent Senator eventually comes to appreciate her insights into human nature as well as her skill and they become close friends. </p><p>The film's sets designed by <a href="/wiki/Art_director" title="Art director">art director</a> <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Banks" title="Lionel Banks">Lionel Banks</a> were acclaimed for their attention to detail.<sup id="cite_ref-peach_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was released in Britain under the <a href="/wiki/Alternative_title" title="Alternative title">alternative title</a> of <i><b>Female Correspondent</b></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jim O'Brien (<a href="/wiki/J._M._Kerrigan" title="J. M. Kerrigan">J. M. Kerrigan</a>), an old friend of highly regarded U.S. Senator John Coleridge (<a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a>), prevails upon the Senator to take under his wing a streetwise orphaned delinquent, teenager Marty Driscoll (<a href="/wiki/Gene_Reynolds" title="Gene Reynolds">Gene Reynolds</a>), and appoint the youth as a <a href="/wiki/Senate_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate page">Senate page boy</a>. Because the boy's father had once helped Coleridge get his start in politics, the Senator reluctantly agrees.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Driscoll continues to be a troublemaker as a Senate page, acting as a smart-aleck around the other pages and in their school classes. He resents having to wear the <a href="/wiki/Knickerbockers_(clothing)" title="Knickerbockers (clothing)">knickers</a> required as part of the Senate pages' uniform at the time,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> contending "I gave up short pants years ago". Told that it's a Senate tradition, he says, "I always thought knickers was for kids" <i>(a scene depicted in the movie poster)</i>. He even gets into a fistfight with another page on the Senate floor (when the Senate is not in session) over a harmless initiation prank the other boys had played on him, resulting in a scolding by senior page Collins (<a href="/wiki/Charles_Smith_(actor)" title="Charles Smith (actor)">Charles Smith</a>) for his disgraceful behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Driscoll's attitude improves markedly, however, when he is befriended at a bowling alley by female radio commentator Jane Scott (<a href="/wiki/Virginia_Bruce" title="Virginia Bruce">Virginia Bruce</a>), who counsels him to take advantage of the privileged opportunity he has been given as a Senate page. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG/220px-Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG/330px-Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG/440px-Virginia_Bruce_1948.JPG 2x" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="747" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Bruce" title="Virginia Bruce">Virginia Bruce</a> ("Jane Scott")</figcaption></figure> <p>Despite his reformed behavior, Driscoll is later wrongly accused by page headmaster Bundy (<a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Glaser" title="Vaughan Glaser">Vaughan Glaser</a>) of eavesdropping on a private meeting of Senators and leaking confidential information. As a result, he is dismissed as a page by Coleridge, who disbelieves his protegé's tearful protestations of innocence.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Distraught at being unjustly terminated, Driscoll decides to get his revenge by turning over privileged information about an upcoming major defense appropriation bill being considered by Coleridge's committee to businessman Frank Conroy (<a href="/wiki/Pierre_Watkin" title="Pierre Watkin">Pierre Watkin</a>). The unscrupulous stock trader gives Driscoll a bribe for this <a href="/wiki/Inside_information" class="mw-redirect" title="Inside information">inside information</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the confidential bill's provisions are subsequently publicized and the stock prices of certain defense-related companies soar, the resulting uproar embroils Sen. Coleridge in controversy and he is investigated by his Senate colleagues for sharing nonpublic information with investors, a violation of Federal law.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Driscoll learns that his misconduct has landed his mentor in serious trouble, he is conscience-stricken and hitchhikes back to Washington, where he bursts into the investigating committee's hearing room to explain that he alone is to blame for the scandal. Although his full confession exonerates Coleridge, there remains the issue of what to do about Conroy's illegal conduct and Driscoll's complicity. The committee votes to indict Conroy and, at the urging of Coleridge, agrees to allow Driscoll's fate to be decided by his fellow pages.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meeting in the empty Senate chambers, one of the pages calls for his dismissal as unfit to be a page. But another page, Abbott (<a href="/wiki/Dick_Jones_(actor)" title="Dick Jones (actor)">Dickie Jones</a>, who also played a page in <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Smith_Goes_to_Washington" title="Mr. Smith Goes to Washington">Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</a></i>), comes to his defense, pointing out that, unlike themselves who came from privileged backgrounds with loving parents who set a good example, Driscoll's lack of these advantages and his voluntary confession should be taken into consideration.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the pages decide that Driscoll may continue as one of their own, the film's final scene concludes as he rises to express his gratitude for their forgiveness. The erstwhile delinquent gives a tearful peroration, saying he's learned from those he's met there how to be an upstanding citizen, and especially that American representative democracy is government "<a href="/wiki/Of_the_people,_by_the_people,_for_the_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Of the people, by the people, for the people">of the people, by the people, for the people</a>", as he recites from memory <i><a href="/wiki/The_American%27s_Creed" class="mw-redirect" title="The American's Creed">The American's Creed</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_cast">Main cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Main cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg/220px-Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg/330px-Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg/440px-Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_18_Marshall_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="459" data-file-height="447" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a> ("Senator Coleridge")</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;min-width: min(25em, 100%);"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marshall" title="Herbert Marshall">Herbert Marshall</a> as Sen. John Coleridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Bruce" title="Virginia Bruce">Virginia Bruce</a> as Jane Scott</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Reynolds" title="Gene Reynolds">Gene Reynolds</a> as Marty Driscoll</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_S._Hinds" title="Samuel S. Hinds">Samuel S. Hinds</a> as Sen. Henry Owen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan" title="Ralph Morgan">Ralph Morgan</a> as Sen. Cummings</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Glaser" title="Vaughan Glaser">Vaughan Glaser</a> as Bundy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Smith_(actor)" title="Charles Smith (actor)">Charles Smith</a> as Collins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickie_Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="Dickie Jones">Dickie Jones</a> as Abbott</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Watkin" title="Pierre Watkin">Pierre Watkin</a> as Frank Conroy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Kerrigan" title="J. M. Kerrigan">J. M. Kerrigan</a> as Jim O'Brien</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Bond" title="Tommy Bond">Tommy Bond</a> as Peewee Haynes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bess_Flowers" title="Bess Flowers">Bess Flowers</a> as Mrs. Arno (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Wolfe" title="Ian Wolfe">Ian Wolfe</a> as Emerson (uncredited)</li> <li>Billy Dawson as Chubby Wells</li> <li>Charles Lind as Lenny Root</li> <li>Mary Currier as Miss Nolan</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film was originally conceived in 1940 with <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> in mind, as a sequel to <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a>' hit film of the previous year, <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Smith_Goes_to_Washington" title="Mr. Smith Goes to Washington">Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</a></i>. <sup id="cite_ref-Gonzalez_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gonzalez-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Senate gave permission for its pages to travel to Hollywood for filming in the summer of 1940, but those plans fell through as World War II engulfed Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-Gonzalez_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gonzalez-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Mickey Rooney turned down the role of Marty Driscoll, 17-year old Gene Reynolds was cast for the part by the time shooting began on February 12, 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-Gonzalez_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gonzalez-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AFI_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFI-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Considerable attention was paid to authentic set design for the Senate chamber, including accurate reproduction of the Senators' desks and other furnishings, down to the <a href="/wiki/Snuff_box" class="mw-redirect" title="Snuff box">snuff boxes</a> at the Vice President's rostrum.<sup id="cite_ref-peach_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Female lead Virginia Bruce prepared for her role as a radio commentator by practicing the delivery style of fast-talking radio personality <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Gibbons" title="Floyd Gibbons">Floyd Gibbons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-peach_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the bowling sequence, she spent two days in a bowling alley rehearsing and shooting the scene, using a special, lightweight ball made of <a href="/wiki/Balsa_wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Balsa wood">balsa wood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-peach_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Filming wrapped on March 24, 1941. <i>Adventure in Washington</i> was released on <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Day" title="Memorial Day">Memorial Day</a>, May 30, 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-AFI_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFI-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Not all members of Congress were pleased with the film's depiction of life on Capitol Hill, especially its scenes of fistfights and eavesdropping by pages. Congressman <a href="/wiki/Donald_H._McLean" title="Donald H. McLean">Donald McLean</a> (R-NJ), in a speech in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>, denounced the film's portrayal of things that didn't happen in real life. Having once been a Senate page himself 40 years before, he said it "undermine[d] the confidence of the electorate".<sup id="cite_ref-Gonzalez_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gonzalez-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> International distribution of the film was not allowed by the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Censorship" title="Office of Censorship">Office of Censorship</a> because of concerns that the storyline's portrayal of the bribing of a Senate page would "hinder the war effort".<sup id="cite_ref-AFI_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFI-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ames (Iowa) <i>Daily Tribune</i> praised the cast's performances and the film's relevance about defense spending "at a time when the eyes of the nation are centered on defense",<sup id="cite_ref-hawkeye_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hawkeye-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as WWII raged in Europe and tensions were rising between the U.S. and Japan. The newspaper lauded the cast as "splendid ... [having] roles calling for the utmost in their not inconsiderable talents". Actors Herbert Marshall and Gene Reynolds ("a new boy star") "possess roles of exceptional merit and provide performances to match", and Virginia Bruce gave a "memorable characterization" of the assertive reporter, the review said.<sup id="cite_ref-hawkeye_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hawkeye-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jackson_Sun" title="The Jackson Sun">The Jackson Sun</a></i> gave a glowing review, saying that Marshall portrayed his Senator character as "both dignified and human" and Roynolds was "splendid". Bruce was singled out for praise, for her "wise-cracking role ... faintly satiric" of some radio reporters.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta Constitution">Atlanta Constitution</a></i> in a June 1, 1941, review called <i>Adventure in Washington</i> "thrilling" and complimented the production for the extent of detail in the sets representing the Senate chamber and page classrooms, down to the desks "and even the snuff boxes at the rostrum".<sup id="cite_ref-peach_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peach-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a> gives the film an aggregate score of 6.8/10, as of July 24, 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Home_media">Home media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Home media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Adventure in Washington</i> was released on DVD by <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Home_Entertainment" title="Sony Pictures Home Entertainment">Sony Pictures Home Entertainment</a> as part of Sony's <i>Choice Collection</i> in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adventure_in_Washington&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephens, Michael L. 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