Yeah, I loved "Mr. Smith." But I loved anything Stewart did.
I thought the "Gabriel" movie was at times trying to be a dark farce, some of it's plot lines were so odd. It was just startling to see something I'd never even heard of, and for it to be so strange. And the background of the issuing of the film was so odd, too.
There were a lot of dark forces at work in the world in the 1930's. Political systems that had their roots in Marxism were on the rise around the world, and there were plenty of statist sympathizers here and abroad. The same year "Gabriel" was released, 1933, was the year Hitler came to power. Those were desperate times here in the USA. It was the height of the depression and the first year of the new Roosevelt administration. He was busy trying to remake us into a socialist nation. "Gabriel" was a crude attempt to foster the notion of the American president (Roosevelt) as a benevolent dictator chosen by God.
For people interested in film history, it's worth a look. But one should be very careful not to fall for any of the film's rotten political propaganda.