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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.

Top Cast

  • Laura La Plante

    Laura La Plante

    Lady Esmerelda

  • Walter Byron

    Walter Byron

    Harold Heartright

  • John Sheehan

    John Sheehan

    Sir Marmaduke Rakes

  • Olaf Hytten

    Olaf Hytten

    Sheerluck Jones

  • Charles McNaughton

    Charles McNaughton

    Hotson

  • William Burress

    William Burress

    Hop Tup

  • Cyril Ring

    Cyril Ring

    Undetermined Role (Credited as Cy Ring)

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.

Rating

6.5 / 10
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A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets. In 1952 England, Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda, upsetting both Nigel's mother, Countess Felicity, and Miranda's former love fellow Hollywood star Don. Right before the engagement party at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend, reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, devises a plan - but an inebriated Don's arrival at Marshwood to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.

Relative Values

6.1 2000