Confessions of an Opium Eater

Confessions of an Opium Eater
Directed byAlbert Zugsmith
Written bySeton I. Miller
Screenplay byRobert Hill (film writer)
Based onConfessions of an English Opium-Eater
1821 story in London Magazine
by Thomas De Quincey
Produced byAlbert Zugsmith
StarringVincent Price
Linda Ho
Richard Loo
Philip Ahn
Narrated byVincent Price
CinematographyJoseph F. Biroc
Edited byRobert S. Eisen
Roy V. Livingston
Edward Curtiss
Music byAlbert Glasser
Production
company
Photoplay
Distributed byAllied Artists Pictures
Release date
  • June 20, 1962 (1962-06-20) (United States)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Confessions of an Opium Eater also known as Souls for Sale and Evils of Chinatown[1] is a 1962 American crime film produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith. It is loosely based on the 1821 autobiographical novel Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written by Thomas De Quincey. After circulating for years as a bootleg, it was released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection in 2012.[2]

This film stars Vincent Price as Gilbert de Quincey, a nineteenth-century adventurer who becomes involved in a tong war in San Francisco. Price also narrated the film, whose evocative cinematography resembles a nightmare. The film was something of a departure for Price; the prolific actor never performed another role that involved so much physical action.[3]

  1. ^ "Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) - IMDb". IMDb.
  2. ^ "Confessions of an Opium Eater (Aka Souls for Sale) | WBshop.com | Warner Bros". www.wbshop.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28.
  3. ^ Nortz, Sean (May 27, 2014). "Could You Spare Me a Nightmare? The World of Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)". brightlighrsfilm.com. Retrieved March 26, 2021.