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The Bitter Tea of General Yen

This exotic melodrama may be Frank Capra's finest achievement. Barbara Stanwyck, subtly radiant, is the American missionary in Shanghai who is abducted by a highly sophisticated Chinese warlord (Nils Asther). Like the film itself, she is both fascinated and repelled by the prospect of relations with this butal man from a culture so different to her own. Where Capra's other films are largely stolid and talky, this is sensuous and profoundly cinematic, perhaps most notably in a sequence in which Stanwyck dreams of her seduction by a forceful Asther.

Year: 1933
Genre: Drama, Classic Drama, Classic Cinema
Country: USA
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther
Duration: 87 Minutes
Rating: PG
7.1/10
Location in store: Classic Drama
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