Confessions of an Opium Eater
Cast & Crew
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price
Linda Ho
Philip Ahn
Richard Loo
June Kim
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Synopsis
In the early 1900's, a Chinese junk smuggles slave girls into San Francisco's Chinatown to be sold at auction. George Wah, a crusading newspaper editor and tong leader, attempts to save the girls but fails when a rival tong appears. He escapes with the help of Lotus, one of the slave girls, who herself manages to escape. The supposition that Wah is dead precipitates a tong war. Adventurer Gil De Quincey arrives to help Wah by joining a rival tong led by Ruby Low, who secretly has killed and is impersonating Tang, the real tong leader. At the underground auction, Wah, disguised as an elderly man, buys Lotus, who has been recaptured, for a large amount of opium. Gil, in the meantime, has found his way to the room with the help of a Chinese "slave child." Wah and Gil are exposed, but an explosion helps them escape to a labyrinth of tunnels. In a subsequent struggle in a drain under the city streets, Gil and Ruby drown in a lovers' embrace.
Director
Albert Zugsmith
Cast
Vincent Price
Linda Ho
Philip Ahn
Richard Loo
June Kim
Yvonne Moray
Alicia Li
John Mamo
Arthur Wong
Jo Anne Miya
Geri Hoo
Keiko
Carol Russell
Terence De Marney
Vincent Barbi
Caroline Kido
Gerald Jann
Vivianne Manku
Miel Saan
Victor Sen Yung
Ralph Ahn
Richard Fong
Crew
Joseph Biroc
Ralph Butler
Edward Curtiss
Lonnie D'orsa
Robert S. Eisen
Albert Glasser
Jon Gregory
Robert Hill
Robert Hill
Eylla Jacobus
Joe Kish
Victor Lewis
Roy Livingston
Eugene Lourie
Eugene Lourie
Seton I. Miller
Alice Monte
Edward Morey Jr.
Ted Mossman
Milt Olsen
Lindsley Parsons Jr.
Charles Schelling
Norah Sharpe
Paul Stader
Bill Turner
Roger J. Weinberg
James West
Albert Zugsmith
Albert Zugsmith
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Notes
Copyright material credits Seton I. Miller as co-screenplay writer, Ed Curtiss as film editor, and Eugene Lourie as associate producer/production designer; Miller and Curtiss do not receive screen credit; Lourie is credited on screen as art director. Actress Keiko Nishimura receives screen credit as Keiko. Alternative title: Souls for Sale. Rerelease title: Secrets of a Soul.
