International House

“Grand Hotel of comedy”

In 1933, buyers from around the world check into a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new invention called the radioscope. The staff doctor is Doctor Burns (George Burns), and when a measles scare locks the building down, a rich eccentric lands his autogyro outside and joins the dinner. A. Edward Sutherland fills the rooms with singers and comedians, and Professor Quail (W.C. Fields) wanders through it all, looking for his own way out.