Confessions of an Opium Eater

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Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962, USA) is a Shocksploitation-Thriller film directed by Albert Zugsmith.

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Main Details

  • Released in 1962
  • B&W
  • Running Time: 85 Min.
  • Production Co: Photoplay
  • Distribution Co: Allied Artists Pictures (1962) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith
  • Written by Thomas De Quincey, Robert Hill
  • Starring: Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo
  • Original Music by Albert Glasser
  • Cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc
  • Film Editing by Robert S. Eisen, Roy V. Livingston

Plot Summary

  • In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.

Taglines

  • Take One Daring Step Beyond the Threshold of Your Imagination!
  • Dare you enter the nightmare zone of the incredible?

Also Known As

  • Le Confessioni di un fumatore d'oppio (Italy)
  • Les Confessions d'un mangeur d'opium (France)
  • Evils of Chinatown (UK)
  • L'Orient érotique (Belgium - French title)
  • Souls for Sale (USA - reissue title)
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