Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
21min

Comedy

Romance

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.

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Masquers Club of Hollywood

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)

Release date

6th Apr 1933

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament 21min