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The bitter tea of General Yen / a Columbia Production ; Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Frank Capra production ; directed by Frank R. Capra ; screen play by Edward E. Paramore Jnr.
LIBRA DVD/PAL 019 790
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Stone, Grace Zaring, 1891-1991. Bitter tea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stone, Grace Zaring, 1891-1991--Film adaptations.
- Stone, Grace Zaring.
- Stone, Grace Zaring, 1891-1991.
- Missionaries--China--Shanghai--Drama.
- Missionaries.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Drama.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- History.
- China--History--Warlord period, 1916-1928--Drama.
- China.
- China--Shanghai.
- Genre:
- Romance films.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Fullframe.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ; [London] : distributed in the EU by Universal Pictures (UK) Limited, [2006]
- Language Note:
- Optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 2; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- region 2
- Summary:
- Romantic melodrama in which an American girl falls for the warlord who abducts her in war-torn China. She arrives in Shanghai to join her fiance, a missionary, and is initially repulsed and terrified by her fierce and charismatic captor, but gradually her feelings change, to fascination and then infatuation.
- Participant:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Gavin Gordon, Toshia Mori, Richard Loo, Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick.
- Credits:
- Photography, Joseph Walker; editor, Edward Curtis; music, W. Frank Harling.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel Bitter tea / by Grace Zaring Stone.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1932.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- OCLC:
- 785831515
- Publisher Number:
- 5050582422108
- 824 221 0 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- C823 5946 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- VFB 02090 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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