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Name: The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Released: 1932-12-15
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

NR
1h 27m
1932

86%

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A young woman (Barbara Stanwyck) arrives in Shanghai to marry a missionary (Gavin Gordon). When the couple moves through a danger zone they are swept into the middle of a revolution. Stanwyck is captured by an infamous warlord (Nils Asther) who is fascinated by her and slowly attempts to seduce her. Unable to possess the one thing he desires most, Stanwyck, the warlord takes bitter tea, laced heavily with poison.

Director:

Frank Capra

Producer:

Walter Wanger, Frank Capra

Writer:

Edward E. Paramore Jr.

Cast:

Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Lucien Littlefield

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: Expertly brewed by director Frank Capra, The Bitter Tea of General Yen offers an engaging account of forbidden love during dangerous times.

Reviews

The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)

James T. Hamada

The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a triumph of direction. It’s spectacular, dramatic, magnificently mounted and gorgeously artistic.

This is what I find to be of such value in [it]; that it risks offence for the sake of constructing a dialogue, one fraught with so many perils in the realms of politics, religion, cultures and sex, that it would not be worth it if it weren’t necessary.

April 25, 2023

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Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)

Eleanor Barnes

Frank Capra, an imaginative director, with the aid of Joseph Walker, his cameraman, preserved the misty illusion through delicately screened photography and an interesting presentation of Nils Asther as the Chinese general.

Director Frank Capra deserves much of the credit for this picture.

Nils Asther gives a superb performance; one which will put him right back into the rank of front-line actors -- just where he was before talkie time.

April 25, 2023

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