The Way Out Electronics Company markets a new colour television set, complete with "fourth dimension", which transmits physical objects across the air and gives the viewer power over the action on the screen. The chief salesman of the company arranges a demonstration for a wealthy eccentric. As he flips the channels the unseen eye of the camera catches the beautiful women of Paris taking off their clothes.
Ambientada en Rusia tras la revolución bolchevique (1917). El anciano Conde Wolsky (Edward Everett Horton) va a la editorial que dirige la joven Nadena Kalenin (Anna Lee), pero ella, en un principio, se niega a recibirlo. Sin embargo, accede a hablar con él cuando se entera de la tentadora oferta que quiere hacerle: la publicación de las memorias de Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff (George Sanders).
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
The story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than he is, and her daughter falls in love with him also. An American critic was vastly impressed by the day-and-night locale shots, and wrote that the film-maker had discarded and soft-pedaled the soft and sentimental in favor of the realistic and logical.
