Based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written by Thomas De Quincey — the same person who inspired Suspiria — and has Vincent Price as Gilbert De Quincey. He’s an adventurer hired to stop the sale of Chinese brides to overseas men.

That makes this sound too ordinary, a film that feels like you’re on drugs, that has Yvonne Moray as a small courtesan, a fishing net filmed backward filled with captured women, bad girl Ruby Low (Linda Ho), a two-fisted action hero role for Vincent Price, floating skulls, rotting bodies and a narration by Price that makes this feel even more odd.

You can also find this as Souls for Sale and Evils of Chinatown. Director Albert Zugsmith also made College Confidential, Sex Kittens Go to College, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, Fanny Hill, Psychedelic Sexualis and the horrific nightmare that is Dondi. He also produced The Incredible Shrinking Man and High School Confidential. What many may not know is that he was also a lawyer. In 1947, he represented a friend from the war, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, in their lawsuit against National Comics for stealing their creation, Superman. They settled out of court for $100,000, and National kept the character. Most of the money went to pay Zugsmith’s fees.

Siegel wanted Bob Kane to come on board and sue over Batman. In the years that followed, both Siegel and Shuster believed that Kane and Zugsmith had made a deal without telling them. They got nothing, Kane got his part ownership and profit deal on Batman, and Zugsmith got his pay. They lost their jobs, never getting to create new adventures for the Man from Krypton.

Writing for this movie has some class. Seton I. Miller won the Oscar for the script for Here Comes Mr. Jordan. He also wrote Scarface and A Knife for the Ladies.

You can watch this on YouTube.