Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.
A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).
The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of the bottle. As he is about to drink the glass passes from his hand mysteriously, sailing through the room and out of the window to the moon…
A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.
Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for him.
The opium smoker Hugo is the youngest son of Baron von Kaufmann, who also is a victim of the drug habit. Hugo is insanely jealous of his older brother Ernest. When Ernst's engagement with beautiful Henny is announced at a costume ball Hugo he gets furious. Observed by his valet he is calmed down. Hugo's valet see's his opportunity to strengthen his position.
The film was banned in Denmark. Instead it opened in Finland.
Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live in poverty with their parents and their father (Hal Clements) finally finds work. Because he is faithful to his boss (Thomas Meighan), he is offered a partnership.
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
When five gentlemen humiliate a merchant in a Tunisian bazaar, the latter curses them, telling them the order of their deaths within a given time frame. The men begin to die in the order they were chosen...
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune; the booming voice of the narrator informs us that the addict has perished. Footage used is from the silent film Dope Fiends.
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
Charlie Chan besucht in Shanghai einen Empfang der britischen Handelskammer. Vor seinen Augen wird Sir Stanley ermordet. Jetzt ist Chans kriminalistischer Spürsinn gefragt. Schließlich hat man ihn doch gerade wegen seiner "Verdienste um die Kriminalwissenschaft" geehrt.
Der Schulrektor Dr. Carroll will bei einem Elternabend die Eltern seiner Schüler über die drohende Gefahr der aufkommenden Droge und "Staatsfeind Nr. 1", Marijuana, aufklären. Darum erzählt er ihnen eine schockierende Geschichte über den Drogenverkäufer Jack, der zusammen mit seiner Freundin Mae regelmäßig High School Schüler in seine Wohnung einlädt um ihnen Drogen zu verkaufen. Doch auf Grund des Drogenkonsums geraten die Dinge außer Kontrolle: Ein Mädchen wird bei einer Rangelei erschossen, ein weiteres begeht Selbstmord, ein Jugendlicher fährt fahrlässig einen Mann an, und ein anderer Jugendlicher muss lebenslänglich in eine psychatrische Anstalt.
Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers. The hotel, which has only one room, already has a guest, a man named Chana. Chana is annoyed that the hotel plays host to various musical groups, including a man who sings European opera, another man who practices the trombone, a Peking opera troupe, a Filipina ballad singer and a brass band that accompanies two bare-knuckles boxers.
Jonathan, seines Zeichens wohlgenährter Schiffskoch, und sein Freund Michael gehen nach langer Seereise in einer orientalischen Hafenstadt an Land. Sie können der Vergnügung einer lockenden Rauschgifthöhle nicht widerstehen, werden gnadenlos betrunken gemacht und ausgeraubt. Zuflucht finden sie bei dem steinreichen Passagier Hieronymus Walden, der in einem Luxushotel abgestiegen ist. Jedoch müssen sich die beiden Bayern dafür bereit erklären, seine Enkelin Kathi, die in einem Harem des Orients verschwunden ist, zu retten.