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Otto Preminger has transferred it to the screen with taste and imagination in an opulent production.

Impeccably liberal in its time, the film has not aged gracefully, although Dorothy Dandridge's performance in the lead remains a testimony to a black cinema that might have been.

The contemporary music sequences are a distraction from the heart of the movie: truly astounding archival footage of speeches, marches, and demonstrations.

Through vivid archival material and voice-overs, the filmmakers create moving vignettes that, taken together, form a fascinating primer on nonviolence as a political force and discipline.

It's a predictable, feel-good fantasy in the mould of a political satire and the result is a good one.

It's a sentiment Capra might well have echoed, though he would surely have punched up the gags while he was at it.