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165378

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

1933-04-06
4
en 21m
ComedyRomance
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.

Director

Otto Brower

Makeup Artist

Mel Berns

Writer

Harrington Reynolds

Writer

Walter Weems

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • RKO Radio Pictures
  • Masquers Club of Hollywood