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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Directed by
Frank Capra
Passed
1933
87m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Romance](/on-demand/category/romance)
6.9
86%
64%
6.3
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A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
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Cast of The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Barbara Stanwyck
Megan Davis
Nils Asther
General Yen
Toshia Mori
Mah-Li
Walter Connolly
Jones
Gavin Gordon
Dr. Robert 'Bob' Strike
Lucien Littlefield
Mr. Jacobson
Richard Loo
Captain Li
Helen Jerome Eddy
Miss Reed
Emmett Corrigan
Bishop Harkness
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
Willie Fung
Officer (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
Mrs. Blake
Robert Bolder
Missionary
Nora Cecil
Missionary
Wong Chung
Chinese Officer
Knute Erickson
Dr. Hansen
Adda Gleason
Mrs. Bowman
Ella Hall
Mrs. Amelia Hansen
Lillian Leighton
Missionary
Martha Mattox
Miss Avery
The Bitter Tea of General Yen Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Irene Thirer
Nils Asther gives a superb performance; one which will put him right back into the rank of front-line actors -- just where he was before talkie time.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Mary Sears
The war scenes are sufficiently exciting to stir most anyone's blood. On the whole, it is good film entertainment, with only a thin plot to hold together the picturesque scenes.
Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
Gus McCarthy
Well mounted and marked by fine individual performances on the part of Nils Asther, Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Connelly, the picture nevertheless takes a long time to tell its story.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Martin Dickstein
Nils Asther is magnificent as General Yen, Barbara Stanwyck is good, and Walter Connolly contributes a fine performance as a renegade American on Yen's staff. It is, in spite of its minor flaws, a dramatic, interesting picture.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinée
Overshadowing all else in this picture, adapted from the novel by the same name, is the superb work of Nils Asther.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
It is a story that is scarcely plausible but which has the saving grace of being fairly entertaining.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Harold V. Cohen
While The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a distinguished photoplay in many respects, its chief virtue is in the acting of Mr. Nils Asther, one of the cinema's forgotten men.
Cine-Mundial
Don Q.
... Neither Nils Asther nor Barbara Stanwyck can shine interpreting their false characters. [Full review in Spanish]
Detroit Free Press
Len G. Shaw
It is rich pictorially, the photography is excellent and the story is told connectedly and entertainingly.
Kansas City Star
Jack Moffitt
Though Barbara Stanwyck is starred and gives her usual finished performance, [it is Nils Asther] that makes the picture notable.
Washington Post
Nelson B. Bell
[The Bitter Tea of General Yen] offers perhaps as eloquent an example as is apt to happen along of the need that sometimes arises to make drastic alterations in the character and purpose of a book to fit it to the unique requirements of the cinema.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
The film is so far from the beaten path as to make its reception by the amusement-seeker extremely problematical. For the courage which inspired its production, all praise.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Damon Kerby
Miss Stanwyck plays her part acceptably, and so does Asther as the Chinese General, but the picture as a whole somehow misses the mark.
Variety
Sam Shain
It has advantages from a photographic angle. Also, some of the settings. However, these technical advantages as admirable as they may be are insufficient to overcome the film's singular plot.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer Staff
From Its provocative title to its final sane Inconclusive conclusion the film made from Grace Zaring Stone's novel rivets the attention and interest.
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
Walter Connolly -- a joy to the critical -- plays the role of the renegade Jones, financial adviser to Gen Yen. This brilliant actor consistently makes every bit of dialogue, every piece of "business" count for the utmost in limning his character.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
One of the most sensuously atmospheric (and least cloying) of Frank Capra's films.
Entertainment Weekly
Lawrence O'Toole
The daring of its theme is continually undercut by a one-sided view of Chinese wartime brutality and some racist dialogue.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Frank Capra's very atypical drama about an American missionary taken prisoner by a Chinese warlord is not only his masterpiece but also one of the great love stories to come out of Hollywood in the 30s -- subtle, delicate, moody, mystical, and passionate.
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