Smith Goes to Washington- Jefferson Smith], the son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, called upon to help him tame the town as the new deputy lawman."At the same time, Clark and Lois were on a long car drive back from the North to Metropolis - she was still astonished by what he had given up for her.After a second cradle scene shot at a slightly different angle, another title card is superimposed over stone tablets with Hebrew script - the characteristic background for all theJudean Storytitles:Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city whose people have given us many of our highest ideals, and from the carpenter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the Man of Men, the greatest enemy of intolerance.They introduce Jake to a second client, a woman named "Mrs.Mulwray" (Diane Ladd), who also complains about a suspected infidelity.Jake replies: "No, really?" in a completely unsurprised, deadpan way, stressing he fact that these are the sort of cases he deals with most.The time period of the provocative, sophisticated film is set in the early 50s during the height of right-wing McCarthyism - a time of tense political paranoia with the overriding, reactionary fear that Communists (Russian and Chinese) were scheming to take over the US via advanced brainwashing techniques and programmed terrorist raining.