The Battle (1934 film)

The Battle
Directed by	Tim Whelan
Written by	Claude Farrère (novel) Robert Stevenson Bernard Zimmer Nicolas Farkas
Produced by	Nicolas Farkas Victor Tourjansky
Starring	Charles Boyer Merle Oberon John Loder Betty Stockfield
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Roger Mercanton William Barache
Music by	André Gailhard
Production companies	Gaumont British Picture Corporation Lianofilm
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	April 1934
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The 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.

Cast

• Charles Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka
• Merle Oberon as Marquise Yorisaka
• John Loder as Fergan
• Betty Stockfeld as Betty Hockley
• Valéry Inkijinoff as Hirata
• Miles Mander as Feize
• Henri Fabert as The Admiral

Bibliography

• Cook, Pam. Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.

External links

• The Battle at IMDb