"I am De Quincey. I dream, and I create dreams. Out of the opium pipe I see sailing into our vision a junk. Its cargo, women....Their destination and mine the human auctions in Chinatown." So begins this drugged-out journey through the smoky world of joss houses, tong hatchetings, and forced slavery. The year is 1902, the place, San Francisco, and our guide is the Man in Black himself, Vincent Price as Gil De Quincey, high adventurer. A labyrinthine plot involving cross-dressing tong leaders, vaporous opium dens, bald assassins, and Oriental girls displayed in hanging bamboo cages is matched only by the inscrutable setting of hidden rooms, sliding panels, secret passages, and narrow sewers. De Quincey, who is variously beaten and stoned throughout the story, continually awakens to the wispy uncertainty of hallucination. "Was this opium, or was this reality?" he muses in his priceless timbre. This mirage-like masterpiece was directed by Albert Zugsmith, who accounts for High School Confidential, Girls Town, and the more recent LSD, I Hate You.