Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television..
Is this worth your afternoon? Honestly, if you like W.C. Fields or if you just want to see what people in 1933 thought television was going to look like, yes. Watch it. If you need a plot that actually goes from point A to point B without tripping over its own feet, you might hate this. It’s basically a bunch of skits...
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"Is this worth your afternoon? Honestly, if you like W.C. Fields or if you just want to see what people in 1933 thought television was going to look like, yes. Watch it. If you need a plot that actually goes from point A to point B without tripping over its own feet, you might hate this. It’s basically a bunch of skits held together by Scotch tape and hope. I think people who like weird history or early comedy will find it charming. It’s better than Puzzled by Crosswords, mostly because it actu..."
Rudy Vallee
Louis E. Heifetz, Walter DeLeon, Neil Brant, Francis Martin
United States
Comedy
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