The Bitter Tea Of General Yen - Capra (1933)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen is the oddest, least characteristic talkie effort of director Frank Capra. Barbara Stanwyck stars as the intended of an American missionary (Gavin Gordon) who is sent to spread the good word in China. During a military revolution, Stanwyck and her fiance inadvertently wander into forbidden territory while trying to help a group of orphans escape. The couple is forcibly detained by elegant warlord General Yen (played by Swedish actor Nils Ashter), who relies upon the financial advice of drunken American expatriate Walter Connolly. Yen is overcome with desire at the sight of Stanwyck; at first repulsed by his attentions, Stanwyck finds herself strangely drawn in by his charisma. When everyone but Connolly deserts Yen when he needs them most, Stanwyck offers to stay behind with the General. Fearing that he will never be able to truly attain the woman he so loves, the honorable General Yen commits suicide by drinking poisoned tea rather than put her in harm's way. The one scene that everyone remembers takes place during one of Stanwyck's fevered dreams, in which she imagines Yen as a Fu Manchu-type rapist, who then melts into a gentle, courtly suitor. Directed with the exotic aplomb of a Josef von Sternberg by the usually down-to-earth Frank Capra, The Bitter Tea of General Yen was unfortunately a box office failure, due in great part to its miscegenation theme (this was still 1933). Even so, the film was chosen as the first attraction at the new Radio City Music Hall. General Complete name : The Bitter Tea Of General Yen.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 700 MiB PlayTime : 1h 23mn Bit rate : 1159 Kbps StreamSize : 10.2 MiB Writing application : Nandub v1.0rc2 Writing library : Nandub build 1852/release Video #0 Codec : XviD Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : XviD project Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1 Codec settings/PacketBitStream : Yes Codec settings/BVOP : Yes Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Default PlayTime : 1h 23mn Bit rate : 1076 Kbps Width : 512 pixels Height : 384 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.218 StreamSize : 645 MiB Audio #1 Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 PlayTime : 1h 23mn Bit rate : 74 Kbps Bit rate mode : VBR Channel(s) : 1 channel Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 44.5 MiB Writing library : LAME3.95 Encoding settings : VBR (rh) IMDB: tt0023814 English audio, English and Portuguese srt subtitles

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