The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
With Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Richard Loo, Clara Blandick, Helen Jerome Eddy, Lucien Littlefield
Directed by Frank Capra
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama war film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, and featuring Nils Asther and Walter Connolly. Based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone, the film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive young woman, she fights her attraction to the powerful general and resists his flirtation, yet remains at his side when his fortune turns.
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