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If you think I am going to let that child...

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You can hear this line at 00:56:23 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Is that any of your business, Mr. Jones?

- No, you don't fool me even a little bit, young lady.

- Mah-Li has been spilling her grief to you, and you're all steamed up with Christian charity.

- Then it's true.

- Sure it's true. But you keep out of it.

- Besides, the General's gone to bed.

- If you think I am going to let that child...

- Now, Miss Davis, maybe you think I acted pretty rotten tonight, but I know what I'm talking about.

- She's not your kind. She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.

- Including murder, I suppose.

- You let the General be the judge of that. He runs his own show out here with about 50 centuries of authority back of him.

- You missionaries come out here and expect to convert 500 million people overnight.

- Why, changing a leopard's spots is duck soup compared to changing China. You are lucky to be alive out here yourself.

[...]

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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Sound Clip

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Quotes from "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933 film, directed by Frank Capra), featuring short sound clips with voice.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Megan Davis), Nils Asther (General Yen), Walter Connolly (Jones)

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