The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Producer: Walter Wanger, Frank Capra, Harry Cohn
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama war film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, and featuring Nils Asther and Walter Connolly. Based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone, the film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans.
Trivia
- The film is based on Grace Zaring Stone's 1930 novel of the same name.
- Stone wrote the book while living in China while her husband, Captain Ellis Stone, commanded the USS Isabel as it patrolled the Yangtze River.
- The novel is not about a romance between Megan and General Yen but rather concerns a philosophical contest between Megan's Christian worldview and Yen's "elegant, educated, wise, unsentimental" philosophy.
Previous Showings
8 Runs • 5 Festivals
10,213 tickets sold
All runs on record (8):
- February 16 - 18, 1990 · 4,001 ticketsw/ Lost Horizon
- October 25 - 27, 1995 · 727 ticketsw/ The Scarlet Empress
- May 10 - 11, 1997 · 1,455 ticketsw/ Lost Horizon
- March 17 - 18, 2007 · 805 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ Flying Down to Rio
- November 24 - 27, 2007 · 1,022 ticketsFall 2007 The Films of Frank Capra, plus other favoritesw/ Lost Horizon
- November 30 - December 2, 2011 · 589 ticketsFall 2011w/ Double Indemnity
- January 17 - 19, 2014 · 858 ticketsFrank Capra Festivalw/ Lost Horizon
- January 10 - 12, 2025 · 756 ticketsThe Films of Frank Capraw/ Lost Horizon