Opium
A Chinese opium dealer takes revenge on Westerners who have corrupted his wife.
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"A contemporary of the German Expressionist classics "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "M," "Opium" delivers a cautionary tale about addiction and sexual licentiousness. Sadly, it also delivers a sledge-hammer to the skull, because it's boring, ponderous, and murky. I am not sure it is historically or artistically important as a benchmark or as entertainment, but the box notes tell us that it sold out for weeks on end when it debuted. I suspect that had more to do with the novelty of movies and the exoticism (besides Germany, it purports to take place in China a..."
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The only copy of the original print survives at the Century Guild Archive.
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A Chinese opium dealer takes revenge on Westerners who have corrupted his wife.