In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
- Lotus
- (as June Kim)
- Lo Tsen
- (as Caroline Kido)
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- (as Joanne Miya)
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- (as John Mamo)
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Did you know
- TriviaIndirectly 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.
- GoofsThis film takes place in the 19th century, as stated, and seen in the townspeople's dress. But in the beach scene, a Thompson machine gun is used; this wasn't available until after 1918.
- Quotes
Gilbert De Quincey: [narration] When the dreams of the dark, idle, monstrous phenomenae move forever forward... wild, barbarous, capricious into the great yawning darkness... to be fixed for centuries in secret rooms. De Quincey, the artist? De Quincey, the pagan priest, to be worshipped, to be sacrificed. What is a dream and what is reality? Sometimes a man's life can be a nightmare; other times, cannot a nightmare be life? And the voices that I heard, were they the voices of some strange imitation of men in some strange, writhing jungle of my imagination? Was this opium or was it reality? Was I dead? Or I was I only beginning to live?
- ConnectionsEdited from Voodoo Woman (1957)
Highly recommended, naturally.
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- Souls for Sale
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1