International House

Buy This Item International House by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 11-25-2008     With regard to the review of Nov 19 2001, it sounds like the reviewer obtained an incomplete copy of the film. My VHS has the scenes he states were deleted on his copy, and the video quality is great on mine! I wonder if he obtained a 'third party' video?<p>I've loved this film since I was a child and know almost all the lines by heart. It is still fun to watch every so often just to see everyone ham it up!<p>W.C. Fields was masterful in his role, having been done before alcohol took its toll on him. Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who was so well-known then and so little-known now, fills her role (and her gowns) with professional ease. Burns and Allen are a pleasure, as always, as the doctor and nurse at the hotel. This is a rare opportunity to see Bela Lugosi in a comedy part, and it makes me regret once more that he was so typecast as Dracula. Franklin Pangborn camps it up as usual as the hotel manager. Yes, there is a dated cultural ethnocentricity as one would expect with a film from this era, but nothing really offensive. <p>Not a bad moment in this film. If you receive a cassette with the scenes missing as reviewed below, return it. Get the whole movie, it's worth it! Reader Reviews One of the cinema's unheralded treasures, "International House" (1933) is a refreshingly bizarre musical-comedy that could only be made during the Depression era. Untouched by the Hays Office, the laughs come at a good clip with a once-in-a-lifetime cast: W.C. Fields, Burns and Allen, Stu Erwin, Bela Lugosi, Franklin Pangborn, Cab Calloway, Baby Rose Marie, and other names too numerous to mention. As Professor Quail, Fields does not make his grand entrance until the halfway mark, but dominates the proceedings with a nonstop stream of one-liners and alcoholic intake. A must-see!

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