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Confessions of an Opium Eater

Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)

Crime, Drama, Mystery | United States

Director: Albert Zugsmith

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Rating: 6.4/10

SYNOPSIS

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.

Actors

Writer: Robert Hill, Thomas De Quincey

Producer: Robert Hill, Albert Zugsmith

RUNTIME: 85 min

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