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title: 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Frank Capra'
released: '1932-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 87
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-bitter-tea-of-general-yen-1932'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023814/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)

1932 · 87 min · Drama, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive young woman, she fights her attraction to the powerful general and resists his flirtation, yet remains at his side when his fortune turns.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra)
- **Producer:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra), [Walter Wanger](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wanger), [Harry Cohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-cohn)
- **Screenplay:** [Edward E. Paramore Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-e-paramore-jr)
- **Original Music Composer:** [W. Franke Harling](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-franke-harling)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-walker)
- **Editor:** [Edward Curtiss](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-curtiss)

## Cast

- [Richard Loo](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-loo)
- [Barbara Stanwyck](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-stanwyck)
- [Helen Jerome Eddy](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-jerome-eddy)
- [Gavin Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/gavin-gordon)
- [Nils Asther](https://cinepixo.com/people/nils-asther)
- [Willie Fung](https://cinepixo.com/people/willie-fung)
- [Tetsu Komai](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsu-komai)
- [Ella Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/ella-hall)
- [Walter Connolly](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-connolly)
- [Robert Bolder](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-bolder)
- [Lucien Littlefield](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucien-littlefield)
- [Nora Cecil](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-cecil)
- [Clara Blandick](https://cinepixo.com/people/clara-blandick)
- [Toshia Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshia-mori)

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