Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
1933 · 21m · N/A
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Otto Brower
Overview
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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