Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

6.5

|1933|21 min

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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