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Summary:

American madness: Set during the Great Depression. Bank president Thomas Dickson battles his board of directors in order to keep making loans to his hard-pressed clientele. When dire circumstances threaten the bank's solvency, chief teller Matt Brown and his fiancee rally around the boss, but will it be too little too late?
The bitter tea of General Yen: At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general's concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.

Table of Contents:

• American madness (76 min.)
• The bitter tea of General Yen (87 min.).

Contributors:

Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 , film director

Cohn, Harry, 1891-1958 , film producer

Riskin, Robert , screenwriter

Huston, Walter, 1884-1950 , actor

Johnson, Kay, 1904-1975 , actor

O'Brien, Pat, 1899-1983 , actor

Cummings, Constance, 1910-2005 , actor

Walker, Joseph B. , director of photography

Paramore, Edward E., Jr. , screenwriter

Wright, Maurice , editor of moving image work

Curtiss, Edward, 1898-1970 , editor of moving image work

Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990 , actor

Asther, Nils, 1897-1981 , actor

Gordon, Gavin, 1901-1983 , actor

Connolly, Walter, 1887-1940 , actor

Mori, Toshia, 1912-1995 , actor

Littlefield, Lucien, 1895-1960 , actor

Loo, Richard , actor

Harling, W. Franke (William Franke), 1887-1958 , composer

Bakaleinikoff, Mischa , composer

Hajos, Karl, 1889-1950 , composer

Stone, Grace Zaring, 1891-1991

Columbia Pictures Corporation , presenter, production company

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) , publisher

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Dialogue in English; subtitles in French.

Included Works:

American madness (Motion picture)

Bitter tea of General Yen (Motion picture)

Related Works:

Motion picture adaptation of: Bitter tea of General Yen [by Stone, G.Z.]

Alternate Titles:

Title on container and disc label: American madness
Title on container and disc label: The bitter tea of General Yen

Subjects:

Depressions — 1929 — United States — Drama

Bank failures — United States — Drama

Bank employees — United States — Drama

Bank directors — United States — Drama

Missionaries — China — Shanghai — Drama

China — History — 1928-1937 — Drama

Generals — China — Drama

Genres:

Motion pictures

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Romance films

War films

Historical films

Film adaptations

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

Blu-ray; regions A, B, C; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono.

Performers:

Cast of American madness: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Contance Cummings.
Cast of The bitter tea of General Yen: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Gavin Gordon, Walter Connolly, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Loo.

Production Credits:

American madness: director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Maurice Wright ; music, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Karl Hajos.
The bitter tea of General Yen: director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Edward Curtiss ; musical score, W. Frank Harling.

General Notes:

Description based on: Titles from container.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
American madness: Columbia Pictures presents ; a Frank Capra production ; produced by Harry Cohn ; story and dialogue, Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra.
The bitter tea of General Yen: Columbia Pictures presents ; a Frank Capra production ; screenplay, Edward Paramore ; directed by Frank Capra.
Both films originally released as a motion picture in 1932.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Full screen (1.37:1).
The bitter tea of General Yen: based on the novel by Grace Zaring Stone.
Special features on American madness include: audio commentary with film historian Steven C. Smith and featuring author Victoria Riskin; audio commentary with Frank Capra Jr. and author Cathrine Kellison; Frank Capra Jr. remembers American madness.
Special features on The bitter tea of General Yen include: audio commentary with film and fashion historian Kimberly Truhler; defining Capra's early style, with Martine Scorsese and Ron Howard.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 163 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0; sound

Film Characteristics:

(American Madness) 1.33:1; (The bitter tea of General Yen) 1.37:1; full screen

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; all regions

Call Numbers:

AME 1932 BLU

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 12696786 (container)
Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 12709919 (container)
Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 9385260 (disc)

OCLC Numbers:

1477929321