Name: Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmereldas Predicament
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1933-04-06
Duration: 21 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Laura La Plante, Walter Byron, John Sheehan, Olaf Hytten, Charles McNaughton

About

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustachetwirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters

Theatrical

Apr 6, 1933

Director

Otto Brower

Studio

RKO Radio Pictures Masquers Club of Hollywood

Original Title

Lost in Limehouse

Keywords

england ghetto parody spoof chinese burlesque racial stereotype tong