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The Battle is a french film of genre Drama directed by Victor Tourjanski released in USA on 22 november 1934 with Charles Boyer
The Battle (1934)
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Add to a movie listThe Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
A French-language version La bataille was also released with many of the same cast, but with Oberon's part played by the French actress Annabella. It was also known by the alternative title Thunder in the East.
Synopsis
Pendant la guerre russo-japonaise, un officier anglais, amoureux d'une jeune japonaise, s'engage sur le cuirassé commandé par le mari de la jeune femme. Il est tué durant la bataille et le commandant dont chacun veut fêter la victoire, se fait harakiri, désespéré d'avoir perdu l'amour de sa femme.Actors
Charles Boyer
(Marquis Yorisaka)
Merle Oberon
(Marquise Yorisaka)
Annabella
(la marquise Mitsouko Yorisaka)
John Loder
(Fergan)
Betty Stockfeld
(Betty Hockley)
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