Confessions of an Opium Eater

Jun 20, 1962

1h 25m

★ 5.5

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Photoplay Productions

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Cast

Gilbert De Quincey

Vincent Price

Ruby Low

Linda Ho

George Wah

Richard Loo

Lotus

June Kyoto Lu

Ching Foon

Philip Ahn

Sing-song girl

Yvonne Moray

Scrawny man

Terence de Marney

Auctioneer

John Fujioka

Newspaper Boy

Angelo Rossitto

Wing Young

Victor Sen Yung

Second Dancing Girl

Geri Hoo

Fat Chinese

Gerald Jann

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