Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament (1933)

6.5/10 • 21 min • Comedy Romance

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 Plante

Walter Byron

Harold Heartright

John Sheehan

Sir Marmaduke Rakes

Olaf Hytten

Sheerluck Jones

Charles McNaughton

William Burress

Cyril Ring

Undetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)

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