The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Grace Zaring Stone (book), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) (film)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and featurung Nils Asther and Walter Connolly. Based on the 1930 novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Zaring Stone, the film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive young woman, she fights her attraction to the powerful general and resists his flirtation, yet remains at his side when his fortune turns.

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Biggles (1932–1968) (series), W. E. Johns, Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) (film)

Biggles is a 1986 British sci-fi adventure film directed by John Hough and later released in 1988 in the United States as Biggles: Adventures in Time). The plot involves a time traveller from the 1980s who is inserted into World War I to help the character Biggles from the series of novels by W. E. Johns and where Biggles also travels to the 1980s to fight time-travelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role.

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Before the Fact (1932), Anthony Berkeley (as Francis Iles) (book), Suspicion (1941) (film)

Suspicion (1941) is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, and Leo G. Carroll. Suspicion is based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact (1932).

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Back Street (1931), Fannie Hurst (book), Back Street (1932) (film)

Back Street is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by John M. Stahl, and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman and based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. The film stars Irene Dunne and John Boles.

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