International House (1933 film)

International House is a 1933 American PreCode comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring W.C. Fields. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film was based on a story by Neil Brant and Louis E. Heifetz and was adapted for the screen by Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin.

After a few brief scenes in the International Settlement in Shanghai, the setting moves over 200 miles away to the International House Hotel, a large metropolitan hotel in Wuhu, China Wuhu also being a pun on the greeting Yoo hoo.The ostensible plot line concerns a Chinese inventor Edmund Breese as Dr. Wong premiering a radioscope, an early version of television. Unlike actual television, the mechanism does not need a camera, but its monitor can focus in and pick up on acts around the world, relaying sound and visuals as though it were a combination of a radio and telescope. Dr. Wong has brought his device to the hotel in an attempt to attract a commercial buyer to develop it. ........

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