Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) - (Movie Clip) I Learned A Terrible Lesson

Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Third Invitation

American missionary bride and semi-willing captive Megan (Barbara Stanwyck) is startled from a nap (actually an erotic dream in which he himself appeared_ by General Yen (Nils Asther) but once more rebuffs his advances in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Megan Dreams

Much remarked upon sequence, stretching Production Code boundaries, Barbara Stanwyck as Megan, the American bride-to-be, somewhat willingly in the maybe-protective custody of the powerful Chinese warlord title character, played by Swedish-born Nils Asther, dozes into provocative realms, directed by Frank Capra, in The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Ready For The Slaughter

Second scene for Barbara Stanwyck as Megan, arrived in strife-torn China to marry her missionary fiancè (Gavin Gordon, who appears shortly), with Clara Blandick her (probably racist) host, wondering aloud about an encounter with the title character, whose name she didn’t get, Frank Capra directing, in Columbia’s The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

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Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) It Will Do You Good

Innocent American Megan (Barbara Stanwyck), having been separated from her missionary fiancè in a riot t in revolutionary China, awakens to meet Mah-Li (Toshia Mori) for the first time and General Yen (Nils Asther), her somewhat scary rescuer, for the second, in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) For Some Nameless Brats?

Chinese warlord General Yen (Nils Asther) is counseled by his crooked American business associate Jones (Walter Connolly) and unmoved by brave missionary Dr. Bob Strike (Gavin Gordon, fiancè of top-billed Barbara Stanwyck) in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.