Confessions of an Opium Eater(1962)
Take one daring step beyond the threshold of your own imagination.
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.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
Gilbert De Quincey
George Wah
Ching Foon
Sing-song girl
Scrawny man
Auctioneer
Newspaper Boy
Wing Young
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