Confessions of an Opium Eater
In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
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"While I have always been interested in watching this one because of its potential campy wretchedness (courtesy of exploitationer Zugsmith's involvement and Leonard Maltin's unflattering *1/2 rating), I only actively sought to acquire it once I learned of its surprising inclusion in celebrated film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's iconoclastic "Alternative Top 100 list" counterpart to the AFI's official list! As if that was not recommendation enough, a movie-buff friend of mine recently alerted me to the fact that, on the film's entry on Joe Dante's "Trai..."
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Indirectly led to the creation of the famed East West Players. Many of the Asian actors, including a young James Hong, were incensed after the only roles they were offered were "opium dope people and the prostitutes and so forth." After a petition to producer Albert Zugsmith fell on deaf ears, Hong co-founded the East West Players to give Asian-American actors more meaningful, non-stereotypical roles.
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In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.