The Battle

 

The Battle - 1934 | 85 mins | Romance | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Nicolas Farkas.
Producer: Leon Garganoff.
Script: Nicolas Farkas, Robert Stevenson and Bernard Zimmer. (from the novel by Claude Farrère)
Cinematography: Roger Hubert.
Original Music: André Gailhard.

The Cast

Charles Boyer - Singh
John Loder - Fergan
Miles Mander - Feize
Betty Stockfeld - Betty Hockley
Alan Ladd - Steve Gibbs
Queenie Leonard - Miss Huggins
Deborah Kerr - Joan Willoughby
Nelson Welch - Norion

Plot Synopsis

Stagey melodramatic film adapted from a novel by Claude Farrere, set during the Japanese/Russian war, the film features some vivid battle scenes.

Set in Japan in the early 1900s, Japanese naval fleet commander, the Marquis Yorisaka (Charles Boyer) forces his vulnerable wife Marquise (Merle Oberon) to seduce British naval attaché Fergan (John Loder) in order to obtain strategic maritime secrets. But the Marquise and Fergan fall in love and the British triumph. Fergan dies in an explosion and Yorisaka commits suicide due to the dishonour he has brought upon himself.