Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)

Directed by

Albert Zugsmith

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 19th century adventurer gets caught up in a violent tong war in San Francisco's Chinatown. The film has a nightmarish visual style and a lot of physical action for its star Vincent Price.

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What happens

Confessions of an Opium Eater (also known as Souls for Sale, Secrets of a Soul and Evils of Chinatown) is a 1962 American crime film directed and produced by Albert Zugsmith and starring Vincent Price as Gilbert de Quincey, a nineteenth-century adventurer who becomes involved in a tong war in San Francisco. It was written by Seton I. Miller and Robert Hill, loosely based on the 1821 autobiographical novel Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey. Price also narrated the film, whose evocative cinematography resembles a nightmare. The film was something of a departure for Price; the prolific actor never performed another role that involved so much physical action. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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