The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 8m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
23 audience votes
Key crew
- A. Edward SutherlandDirector
- Francis MartinScreenplay
- Walter DeLeonScreenplay
- Howard JacksonOriginal Music Composer
- John LeipoldOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph RaingerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Peggy Hopkins JoycePeggy Hopkins Joyce
- W.C. FieldsProfessor Quail
- Rudy ValleeHimself
- Stuart ErwinTommy Nash
- George BurnsDoctor Burns
- Gracie AllenNurse Allen
- Sari MaritzaCarol Fortescue
- F. Chase TaylorColonel Stoopnagle
- Budd HulickBudd
- Cab CallowayCab Calloway
- Bela LugosiGeneral Petronovich
- Rose MarieHerself / Baby Rose Marie
Stills
Themes
hotelquarantineinventorcabaretchinese provincescrewball comedypre-codehotel managerluxury hotelbig bandvaudeville actvariety show