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Confessions of an Opium Eater

1962·Drama·1h 25m
7.1
★
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.
Directed by Albert Zugsmith
san francisco, california
hallucination
destiny
adventurer
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Cast

Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Gilbert De Quincey
Richard Loo
Richard Loo
George Wah
Philip Ahn
Philip Ahn
Ching Foon
Yvonne Moray
Yvonne Moray
Sing-song girl
Terence de Marney
Terence de Marney
Scrawny man
John Fujioka
John Fujioka
Auctioneer
Angelo Rossitto
Angelo Rossitto
Newspaper Boy
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung
Wing Young
Ralph Ahn
Ralph Ahn
Wah Chan

Crew

Albert Zugsmith
Albert Zugsmith
Director
Joseph F. Biroc
Joseph F. Biroc
Director of Photography
Albert Zugsmith
Albert Zugsmith
Producer
Eugène Lourié
Eugène Lourié
Production Design

Popular Reviews

2 reviews
Anna
Anna
4.0★ · 04/24/25
Confessions of an Opium Eater
i was thinking how this movie feels weird and unfinished and then found out it is unreleased and in fact unfinished
i was thinking how this movie feels weird and unfinished and then found out it is unreleased and in fact unfinished
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Max Kowalski
Max Kowalski
10.0★ · 04/26/21
Confessions of an Opium Eater
“Devil in drunkard, ghost in poet, was I.”

Existential Vincent Price narration + drug haze approach to explaining the Tong war. 
There is a part where a horse beats up a guy and it only gets wilder from there.
“Devil in drunkard, ghost in poet, was I.”

Existential Vincent Price narration + drug haze approach to explaining the Tong war. 
There is a part where a horse beats up a guy and it only gets wilder from there.
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