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W.C. Fields in
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
in 35mm
U.S., 1933
Directed by Edward Sutherland
Starring W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Cab Calloway, Rudy Vallee, Baby Rose Marie, Franklin Pangborn
Approx. 70 min. 35mm.
As the bidders for Dr. Wong’s “radioscope” (aka TV) gather in Wu Hu, China, U.S. exec Stu Erwin gets chicken pox; Burns & Allen and Rudy Vallee do their shtik; Cab Calloway swings “Reefer Man” (!); and Fields flies in on his seemingly beer-fuelled auto-gyro, “The Spirit of Brooklyn.”