International House
1933 · 1h 8m · 5.7
Comedy
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sari Maritza, F. Chase Taylor, Budd Hulick, Cab Calloway
hotel, quarantine, inventor, cabaret, chinese province, screwball comedy, pre-code, hotel manager, luxury hotel, big band, vaudeville act, variety show, vaudevillian, television set, hotel guest, cabaret singer, bidding war, tech investor, new technology, republic of china