Confessions of an opium eater
By: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; an Albert Zugsmith production ; written by Robert J. Hill ; produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith
Contributors: Price, Vincent, 1911-1993, actor; Ho, Linda, actor; Loo, Richard, actor; Vidor, King, 1894-1982, actor; Vidor, Florence, actor; De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859; Allied Artists Pictures Corporation; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Edition: Widescreen version.
Series: Warner archive collection; Archive collection
Publisher: Distributed by Warner Home Video
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burbank, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 85
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Drama; Opium abuse
Other titles: Thomas de Quincey's classic, Confessions of an opium eater
Description: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Tong wars of the 1800s, women are sold as slaves by an evil drug lord named Ling Tang. DeQuincey is hired to find a woman who has escaped the slave trade and bring her back. As he hides out in Chinatown he discovers the wonders of the opium trade and the drug's hallucinogenic effects. "Filled with absurd dialogue, Asian stereotypes and A-typical Zugsmith exploitation touches, the film is a classic of the early 60's sleaze genre."
Notes: Based on the book by Thomas de Quincy.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.

Cinematography, Joseph Biroc ; editing, Roy Livingston, Robert Eisen ; music, Albert Glasser.

Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, King Vidor, Florence Vidor.

Not rated.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen, aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.66:1); Dolby Digital mono.