best stoner flicks?

[pynchonoid]

International House, starring W.C. Fields.  

http://www.moria.co.nz/sf/internationalhouse.htm

USA. 1933.
Director - Edward Sutherland, Screenplay - Walter
DeLeon & Francis Martin, Story - Neil Brant & Louis E.
Heifetz, Photography (b&w) - Ernest Haller,
Music/Lyrics - Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin. Production
Company - Paramount.

Cast:
W.C. Fields (Professor Henry Quail), Peggy Hopkins
Joyce (Herself), George Burns (Dr Burns), Gracie Allen
(Nurse Allen), Stuart Erwin (Tommy Nash), Franklin
Pangborn (Hotel Manager), Edmund Breese (Dr Wong),
Sari Maritza (Carol Fortescue), Bela Lugosi (General
Nikolas Petronovich)
 

Plot: Dr Wong plans a demonstration of his invention,
The Radioscope, which can view things happening far
away without the need of a broadcast apparatus. He
calls various international representatives to come to
the demonstration at the International House hotel in
Wu-Hu, China, and afterwards bid on the device. Much
rivalry ensues. And then chaos results when the
drunken Professor Henry Quail arrives via autogyro. 

When he lands, after asking a young lady where he has
arrived, he says something like "Woo-hoo to you to,
toots, where am I?"  He also walks along the check-in
counter in the hotel lobby and falls into the
telephone switchboard - if I remember correctly, hey,
I wuz stoned - and calls it "some kind of Chinese
noodle swamp" or words to that effect.  

Television serves as a framing device for a lot of
different wacky stuff, including Cab Calloway and
orchestra singing Have You Ever Seen That Funny Reefer
Man? 

Well-grooved in my brain, from a lost Texas weekend,
whether that's what's actually in the movie or not.



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