0 david bax / monday movie / movies August 19, 2019 by · Published August 19, 2019 Monday Movie: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, by David Bax It’s almost funny, in a foul-tasting way, to read that the initial box office failure of Frank Capra’s 1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen was attributed by some to racism on the part of moviegoers unwilling to accept the...