Lost in Limehouse

1933
21m

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Laura La Plante and John Sheehan in Lost in Limehouse (1933)

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 gan... Read allA 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.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
Writers
- Walter Weems
- Harrington Reynolds
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6.3/10

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Director
- Otto Brower
Writers
- Walter Weems
- Harrington Reynolds
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The complete title is "Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament"

Goofs
The choir singing carols, consists of four men, yet the dubbed rendition of "Good King Wenceslas" they are singing contains female voices.

Quotes
Effingwell: Pardon,Your Grace, shall I lock up the joint?

Soundtracks
Good King Wenceslas
(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Helmore
Lyrics by John M. Neale (as John Mason Neale) (1853)
Sung by quartet of carolers.

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4/10

Enjoyable...in small doses.

This evening, I watched several Masquers Club shorts and I must say that they are enjoyable...in VERY small doses. This is because the acting is deliberately bad and way over the top...so much so that the idea wears thin and should have been confined to one, or perhaps two, shorts.

The story is a spoof where the daughter of a rich British family is taken prisoner by a Snidely Whiplash-like villain. He tries to force her to marry him...but she is in love with another man. And, this lover sets out to find and rescue the damsel...with the help of a Sherlock Holmes-like detective.

While the basic story isn't bad, as the film progresses it becomes more and more tedious...especially when the good guys pose as Chinese tong members!! It's really pretty awful by the end...which is why I score this one a 4, though it did start off well.