VHS : The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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Rating:  - "A lot of hooey,"
says Jones (Walter Connolly) in the last scene of this movie. That about sums it up. Somewhat below average. Barbara Stanwyck wasn't below average. She never is. She is practicing acting as the beautiful, virginal, (if somwhat gullible) missionary Megan Davis. She's about to be married in China to another missionary. There is a riot & she is rescued or kidnaped depending on your point of view by General Yen. He is basically a ruthless criminal played by Nils Asher. Apparently there were no ... Read More
Rating:  - Must be seen
This extraordinary film, way ahead of its time, provides unforgettable viewing. The story is unlike anything that came out of Hollywood ever, and this was 1933! Barbara Stanwyck plays a missionary's wife who is captured by a Chinese warlord, played by Nils Asther. The film explores the clash of the cultures as the western and narrow minded Stanwyck learns to understand the oriental Asther.
In Frank Capra annals, it is a unique, so different to the sentimental comedies in which he later ... Read More
Rating:  - I Know I'm The Minority Here...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is the story of a rebel Chinese (Nils Asther) who takes in a Catholic woman (Barbara Stanwyck) when she is knocked out in a large crowd during a panic in the Chinese Civil War. She is presumed dead by her family and the general will not let her escape. She strangely falls in love with him, but the two are very different people, brought up in completely different cultures.
The love story between the two is incredibly hard to detect because it is so microscopic. ... Read More
Rating: - Stanwyck and Capra outdo themselves
This was the first film to open at Radio City Music Hall in 1933, and it was so far ahead of its time it was a popular failure. It will probably remind of you nothing like Frank Capra's later films, but it's probably his most lyrical and sensitive work--there's no question that it's a masterpiece. Set in China during the "warlord period" of the late 20s and early 30s, the film concerns the strange abduction of a New England missionary (played by Barbara Stanwyck) and a cruel but highly cultured Chinese ... Read More
Rating: - A very different Frank Capra film...
Frank Capra's groundbreaking story of an interracial romance between a Catholic missionary in wartorn China (played by a gorgeous young Barbara Stanwyck) and a cruel, haughty Chinese warlord, played -- in the style of the time -- by a white guy. It's a very unusual film, and much different than most other Capra classics. To begin with, the story takes place outside of the director's usual Middle-America tromping grounds, and his dramatizations of the bloodshed and chaos taking place in Asia are pretty amazing... ... Read More
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