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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (VHS, 1993) 
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (VHS, 1993)

 
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (VHS, 1993)

Leading Role: Nils Asther
Director: Frank Capra
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Sep 1993
Format: VHS
UPC: 043396274037
Product ID: EPID3195274
Description: Though seemingly tame by contemporary standards, this tale of suggested interracial romance proved to be shocking in its day. Missionary Megan Davis travels from her staid New England home to Shanghai during China's civil unrest in the 1...
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  An astonishing film for the period
Review created: 09/21/06

Outstanding performances by Barbara Stanwyck as an American blue-blood missionary and Nils Asther, a Swede actor playing the role of Chinese General Yen. And can you imagine a love-story between the two characters transpiring in a film of the 1930s! And it's a rivetting story playing off the chemistry of Stanwyck and Asther's Chinese persona.

Some stereotypes are present but other stereotypes are challenged!


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