Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
2차대전 후 중국은 오랜 전쟁으로 가난과 혼란스러운 생활이 지속된다. 수많은 병사들이 타향에서 농민을 약탈하고 각처의 군벌세력이 형성되어 권력다툼을 벌이는 등 민생치안은 돌보지 않는다. 그틈을 탄 악랄한 도적단은 한 마을을 점령하고 생필품을 약탈한다. 이에 불의를 참지 못한 청년이 북경으로 가서 자기마을을 구할 수 있는 호걸들을 찾아나선다. 우여곡절 끝에 불의를 참지 못하는 젊은 혈기의 의리남 청년 7명을 만나서 마을을 향해 전진하게 되고, 퇴역군 정소추와 그의 부하 6인의 전사들이 펼치는 처참한 전투는 시작되는데...
Informed by the conviction that film was a means to advocate patriotism, Lai established China Sun Motion Picture Company in the early 1920s. He teamed up with friends to follow Dr Sun, traversing provinces for several years and filming precious historical moments such as Sun's inspection of the country and the Northern Expedition led by Chiang Kai-shek after the death of Sun. Some of those footage was edited into A Page of History, available to the public today, albeit deteriorated and incomplete. The Battle of Shanghai records the famous conflict at the beginning of the war in 1937 when, fervently resisting the invading Japanese army, 800 soldiers defended a warehouse until the very last moment. Shot by Lai and his team at the risk of death, the film is now an invaluable visual document in Chinese modern history.
