Sentences with phrase «with opium dens»
The city became rife with opium dens and brothels.
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Combined with the place's Chinese - restaurant - of - yesteryear / opium - den decor, the whole experience is a trip.
The old gold - mining town, once bustling with saloons, brothels, gambling halls, and even opium dens, is now a ghost town, probably the most famous one in America.
The film's real feat may be in its production design, in the sumptuousness and veracity with which it re-creates central Saigon and the Vietnamese countryside of the»50s: an exotic lost world of brothels and opium dens, trishaws and ao - dai dresses, Ming - deco interiors and water buffalos in rice paddies.
Ives recruits Chandler for the titular night work, and along with explorer Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), they descend into a subterranean chamber of horrors beneath an opium den.
An old Red Crescent medical bus, seemingly recently discarded by hippies who've turned it into an opium den — the claustrophobic space seems thick with their presence.