Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

21 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 6, 1933

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.

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

21 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 6, 1933

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
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.
Producers RKO Radio Pictures, Masquers Club of Hollywood
Original title Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Directors Otto Brower
Writers Walter Weems, Harrington Reynolds

Cast

Laura La Plante

as Lady Esmerelda

Walter Byron

as Harold Heartright

John Sheehan

as Sir Marmaduke Rakes

Olaf Hytten

as Sheerluck Jones

Charles McNaughton

as Hotson

William Burgess

as Hop Tup

Cyril Ring

as Undetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)