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

04/06/1933 (US) • 21m

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.

Top Billed Cast

Laura La Plante

Lady Esmerelda

Walter Byron

Harold Heartright

John Sheehan

Sir Marmaduke Rakes

Olaf Hytten

Sheerluck Jones

Cyril Ring

Undetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

england

ghetto

parody

spoof

chinese

burlesque

racial stereotype

tong

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