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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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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 1930s. There, she joins her fiance, Robert Strike, but the couple is separated while trying to liberate an orphanage -- and Megan falls into the hands of Chinese warlord General Yen. To their mutual surprise, Megan and General Yen develop an affinity for one another. Though he orders the massacre of hundreds during the day, Yen at night reveals a rueful, poetic side, and their affection deepens. However, the inroads made by Chinese rebels threaten to end their tentative courtship in a bloody manner that, Yen surmises, has been predetermined by his own deeds.

Credits
Writer:Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Producer:Walter Wanger
Cast:Lucien Littlefield, Nils Asther, Richard Loo, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound

Notes
Additional cast: Toshia Mori (Mah-Li); Emmett Corrigan (Bishop Harkness); Moy Ming (Dr. Lin); Robert Wayne (Rev. Bostwick); Knute Erickson (Dr. Hansen); Robert Bolder (Missionary); Lilliane Leighton (Missionary); Harriet Lorraine (Missionary); Martha Mattox (Miss Avery); Arthur Millet (Mr. Pettis); Miller Newman (Dr. Mott); Arthur Johnson (Dr. Shuler); Jessie Perry (Miss Reid); Jessie Arnold (Mrs. Blake); Adda Gleason (Mrs. Bowman); Daisy Robinson (Mrs. Warden); Daisy Llewelyn (Mrs. Meigs); Willie Fung (Prisoner/Soldier); Ray Young (Engineer); and Milton Lee (Telegrapher).

Based on the novel by Grace Zaring Stone.

This was the first motion picture ever to be shown at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

A variety of complaints met this feature, including charges that American government officials were portrayed as buffoons, missionaries were made to be ignoramuses, and the relationship between Megan and Yen was offensive.

Contrary to director Frank Capra's own autobiography, this film was not banned in England.

Incidentally, some of the sets used in this film appeared later in "One Night of Love," a 1934 Grace Moore vehicle directed by Victor Schertzinger.

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