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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament (1933) [N/A]

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Featuring:
Laura La Plante, Walter Byron, John Sheehan

Written by:
Walter Weems
Harrington Reynolds

Directed by:
Otto Brower


Release Date:
April 6, 1933

Original Title:
Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

Genres:
Comedy | Romance

Production Companies:
Masquers Club of Hollywood
RKO Radio Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 21

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Overview from Open Movies

In this satiric burlesque of Sherlock Holmes, Lady Esmerelda, the beautiful daughter of an aristocratic family, is kidnapped by a Tong gang and held in Limehouse, the Chinese ghetto in London. Famed detective Sheerluck Jones and her fiancé, Harold Heartright, disguise themselves and set out to rescue her.

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Rankings and Honors

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament (1933) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.2/10

Performers

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Production

Director:
Otto Brower

Makeup Artist:
Mel Berns

Writer:
Harrington Reynolds
Walter Weems

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