Confessions of an Opium Eater

"Take one daring step beyond the threshold of your own imagination."

Jun 20 1962 Not Rated 1h 25m
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Plot

Gilbert de Quincey is an early 19th-century adventurer involved with helping runaway slave girls and victims of a tong war in San Francisco. Garbed in black from head to toe, de Quincey narrates his adventures. At the slave auction where beautiful Asian girls are displayed in hanging bamboo cages, de Quincey befriends a tiny wisecracking female Asian dwarf.

Written by

Robert Hill, Thomas De Quincey

Directed by

Albert Zugsmith

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Photoplay Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
816
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA