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'The Battle' (also known as 'Thunder in the East') is a 1934 FrancoBritish co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a 1909 French novel by Claude Farrre entitled 'La bataille'.

Plot



In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife, played by Merle Oberon, to seduce a British attach in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.

Cast



* Charles Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka

* Merle Oberon as Marquise Yorisaka

* John Loder as Fergan

* Betty Stockfeld as Betty Hockley

* Valry Inkijinoff as Hirata

* Miles Mander as Feize

* Henri Fabert as The Admiral

Production



This was first released as a French-language film entitled 'La bataille' with many of the same cast members, but with Oberon's part played by the French actress Annabella.

In the United States, the English film was released in August 1935 under the title 'Thunder in the East'.

The English version was revived in 1943 under a new title, 'Hara-Kiri', and changes were made that transformed the film into an anti-Japanese wartime propaganda film. The primary changes were a foreword relating to Pearl Harbour and Japanese perfidy, as well as an epilogue about the cowardice of hara-kiri.

See also



* 'The Battle' (1923)

References



Bibliography



* Cook, Pam. 'Gainsborough Pictures'. Cassell, 1997.


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