The Bitter Tea of General Yen

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

NR
1h 27m
1932

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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

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Kenneth R. Morefield

The 'bitter tea' of the title is, of course, a not so veiled allusion to the cup of suffering that Christ asks to be taken from him but to which he says "not my will, but yours be done."

An odd duck to be sure: substantially darker than the other Capra films I've seen, with a Chinese civil war and firing squads serving as the backdrop for a love story that never really comes together.

If any Hollywood film from the '30s is positively begging to be rediscovered...this is it.

June 21, 2017

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