Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Souls for Sale (1962)

Allied Artists
Directed by Albert Zugsmith
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Vincent Price is a sailor in San Francisco's Chinatown who tries to save young women being sold as slaves. He is an expert in Chinese philosophy, rolling off quotes from Confucius faster than Charlie Chan. He falls in love with one of the slave traders, but she is more interested in money and power. He gets captured, is put in a cage and befriends a Chinese midget. There is excessive dancing during the slave auction. He visits an opium den and the next ten minutes of the film are in slow motion and silence.

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