Confessions of an Opium Eater
Confessions of an Opium Eater

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Confessions of an Opium Eater:

Vincent Price
Linda Ho
Richard Loo
June Kyoto Lu
Philip Ahn
Yvonne Moray

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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.

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rec.arts.movies.reviews - 10/10 by Shane Burridge(The) distributor's alternate title SOULS FOR SALE...advertises the film's sinister proceedings right from the opening credits
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzLeaves you high for at least a half hour after viewing.
User Review - 8/10 by Joseph SThe only similarity this bears to De Quincy's "Confessions Of An English Opium Eater" is that both characters have the name Thomas De Quincy. The novel is an autobiography of the effects on opium on one man's life, while the film is a Vincent Price lead "Lady From Shanghai" like twisting film noir. Price's De Quincy is a sailor whose voice over comes as a Chandler meets De Quincy poetry, and comes to San Francisco after a long stay in "the orient", where he involves himself in the dubious world of human trafficking, particularly brides in China Town. The film opens with a brutal scene involving screaming women thrown in net like freshly caught tuna, and then a violent battle between two gangs on the beach as they try to deliver the kidnapped women to their fate. Albert Zugsmith produced classics like "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Written On The Wind", and "Touch Of Evil", along with directing many exploitation flicks, which this film veers into from time to time. It is more in the Siejun Suzuki brand of wildly inventive, free wheeling pulpy expressionism, than Ed Wood ineptness fortunately. Despite the title the only scene involving opium is when Price takes some in order to get close to the women trafficking ring, and has a particularly impressive Lynchian circa Elephant-Man hallucination scene (which is worth price of admission alone), however the best scene comes when Price wakes up surrounded by guards and has to make a slow motion(cus he's high on opium) dash out of the den, and to the rooftops of china town. The scene is is also completely silent, and trully marvelous in it's execution. I know slow motion action sequences where Greogiran chanting plays over sweat glistened A-listers shooting each other in mid air, but in Zugsmith's hands it's like seeing it for the first time. The plot is not particularly strong (why De Quincy is saving the girl, or what he is doing in China town at all, has many twists and turns, and leaves some gaps to be filled), but the direction, the suspense, and especially Price's performance make lines that would sound preposterous almost Terrance Malick like in their stream of consciousness, sound as if he says them everyday. Such are the gifts of Price. I had was very pleased with this movie, that can be found easily on Youtube, though you might want to get a good copy to take in the fullness of Zugsmith's frames. There is a dreaminess and nightmarishness to all of the scenes, like Opium was poured over a script to a lesser film, and this movie stumbled out of a smoke ridden room, singing of dancing girls emerging from cages, being swept to sea from sewer drains, and teetering on the edge of rooftops with vertigo at a snails pace, crashing through windows, and feeling "the abbacus of fate has your number". Good times.
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WLeaves you high for at least a half hour after viewing.
User Review - 6/10 by Trent RVincent Price references Thomas De Quincey near the beginning, but otherwise the title has nothing to do with the novel - unless the scriptwriter was making a statement of personal admission. This film is insanely exploitative, with all the cliches of `30s Yellow Peril cinema - and indeed some of the same cast in Richard Loo & Philip Ahn. The Orientalist madness includes: gangs of Tong axemen; secret passages, aqueducts and tunnels beneath SF's Chinatown; an opium den; sex slaves in suspended bamboo cages; and an auction of decrepit old men trading opium bricks for the former. Of course, all of this is supposedly justified by a plot that features Price as a savvy student of Eastern philosophy - playing a sort of double-agent to take down the ne'er-do-wells. He is eventually aided by Yvonne Moray, ex-Munchkin and member of the Lullaby League. In this, she plays an ex-wife/slave left to die in her cage who disturbingly at first feigns childhood while also coming on to Price. In his subterranean exploits, Price reluctantly partakes of the dread poppy in a den of vice. This sends him into a bizarre hallucinatory dream sequence where his voiceover speculates, "Was this opium or was it reality? Was I dead? Or was I only beginning to live?" This is followed by a crazy slow-motion escape in which Price leaps through a closed window and is chased across rooftops in a drug-induced and overcranked stupor. The cinematography from Joseph F. Biroc, (It's a Wonderful Life, The Twonky, China Gate, Superman) is terrific. Many scare and dream sequences are in slow motion and still frames, or reversed as near the very end. Albert Glasser's score is similarly appropriate to the weird spook house vibe, with many nice theremin vamps. This is a crazily fun piece of high exploitation cinema, with many truly talented people behind and in front of the camera. Amazing that it was produced in 1962, trying to capitalize on drugspoitation in addition to the usual elements of Orientalism - all made acceptable by a mild tone of condemnation.
User Review - 6/10 by Patsy LVincent Price, Heroin, Chinatown?....What more does a great Saturday matinee need? Milkduds.
User Review - 2/10 by David SLaughable dud that makes one long for Joel and the Bots to verbally savage its wall-to-wall aphorisms and plodding hero.

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