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Release Date: 1933

Cast: Gracie Allen, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Cab Calloway, W. C. Fields, Rudy Vallée, Stuart Erwin, Sterling Holloway, Rose Marie, Béla Lugosi, Sari Maritza, George Burns, F. Chase Taylor ...MORE

Cast: Gracie Allen, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Cab Calloway, W. C. Fields, Rudy Vallée, Stuart Erwin, Sterling Holloway, Rose Marie, Béla Lugosi, Sari Maritza, George Burns, F. Chase Taylor, Budd Hulick ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Farce, Black-and-white, Slapstick

International House (1933) is a comedy film, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The tagline of the film was "the Grand Hotel of comedy". The film is a mix of numerous acts and bits, like a vaudeville variety show, interlaced with a plot line, in the style of the Big Broadcast pictures that were also released by Paramount during the 1930s The ostensible plot line concerns a Chinese inventor trying to sell a "radioscope", an early version of television. Unlike real television, this imagined mechanism did not need a camera, but its monitor could zoom in on... MORE

International House (1933) is a comedy film, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The tagline of the film was "the Grand Hotel of comedy". The film is a mix of numerous acts and bits, like a vaudeville variety show, interlaced with a plot line, in the style of the Big Broadcast pictures that were also released by Paramount during the 1930s The ostensible plot line concerns a Chinese inventor trying to sell a "radioscope", an early version of television. Unlike real television, this imagined mechanism did not need a camera, but its monitor could zoom in on acts around the world. In addition to the typical Fieldsian comic lunacy, it also provides a snapshot of some popular stage and radio acts of the era. The setting is a large hotel in Wuhu, China (from the dialogue, "Wuhu" was clearly chosen as a pun on the greeting "Yoo hoo") and the "international" in the title resonates with the real-life International Settlement in Shanghai. It was actually filmed on Paramount's Hollywood back lot. Fields portrays Dr. Henry R. Quail, who is one of many people—from all over the world—converging on the "International House Hotel" in Wuhu, though he is the only one LESS