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

★ 6.5/10 21 min Comedy, Romance United States English

Director: Otto Brower

Writers: Walter Weems, Harrington Reynolds

Streaming: Not available

Description

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 Cast

Laura La Plante Lady Esmerelda

Walter Byron Harold Heartright

John Sheehan Sir Marmaduke Rakes

Olaf Hytten Sheerluck Jones

Charles McNaughton Hotson

William Burress Hop Tup

Cyril Ring Undetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)