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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

  • 1933
  • TMDB 6.5/10
  • 21m

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.

Overview

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.

Cast

  • Laura La PlanteLady Esmerelda
  • Walter ByronHarold Heartright
  • John SheehanSir Marmaduke Rakes
  • Olaf HyttenSheerluck Jones
  • Charles McNaughtonHotson
  • William BurressHop Tup
  • Cyril RingUndetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)

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