28. It was just what the doctor ordered.
Between the late 1920s and early 1930s, a period of films broke the boundaries of what was acceptable to show at the time, called the Pre-Code era. In it, filmmakers would do explicit stories or violent films that were too taboo to show in theaters. Moreover, that’s when the film International House” came to be, starring Gracie Allen, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Bela Lugosi, and Franklin Pangborn. The movie is about a group of people who goes to a hotel in China to bid on an invention called Television. This publicity picture with some of the cast shows how silly this comedy was at the time.
