Confessions of an opium eater /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Price, Vincent, 1911-1993 (Actor), Ho, Linda (Actor), Loo, Richard (Actor), Vidor, King, 1894-1982 (Actor), Vidor, Florence (Actor), Zugsmith, Albert (Director), Hill, Robert, 1886-1966 (Screenwriter), Miller, Seton I. (Screenwriter)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	©1962
Edition:	Widescreen version.
Series:	Archive collection.
Subjects:	Opium abuse > California > San Francisco > Drama. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) > Drama.

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Summary:	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."
Item Description:	Based on the book by Thomas de Quincy. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen, aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.66:1); mono.
Audience:	Not rated.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Joseph Biroc ; editing, Roy Livingston, Robert Eisen ; music, Albert Glasser.