An American Tragedy 1931  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Claire McDowell, Frederick Burton, Wallace Middleton, Emmett Corrigan, Lucille La Verne, Charles Middleton, Al Hart, Fanny Midgley, Arnold Korff, Russ Powell, Richard Cramer
Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, this is a drama about Roberta Alden's murder. Her story is told through flashbacks during the ensuing trial. The story was remade in 1951 as "A Place in the Sun." The remake is the better of the two versions.
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933   N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori, Gavin Gordon, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Loo, Clara Blandick, Helen Jerome Eddy, Emmett Corrigan, Clara Blandick, Jessie Arnold, Robert Bolder, Knute Erickson, Daisy Jefferson
American missionary Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck) comes to Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War with plans to marry Dr. Robert Strife (Gavin Gordon). The wedding is postponed so that children can be rescued from an orphanage in the middle of a battlefield. Meanwhile, Megan is knocked out and saved by Chinese warlord General Yen (Nils Asther). She is brought to his palace and falls in love with him. When his empire is destroyed, Megan stays with him as he drinks his last bitter tea.
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