The Battle

1h 23m
WarDramaRomance
3

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer allows his wife to be seduced by a British naval attaché in order to gain access to a secret report he has written, unaware her marital unhappiness has made her vulnerable to falling in love with him. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère, and also filmed in a French-language version, LA BATAILLE., q.v.

Cast

Charles Boyer
Captain Yorisaka
Merle Oberon
Mitsuko Yorisaka
John Loder
Commander Fergan
Betty Stockfeld
Betty Hockley
Valéry Inkijinoff
Hirata Takamuri
Miles Mander
Felze
Henri Fabert
The Admiral

Crew

Nicolas Farkas
Director, Writer
Viktor Tourjansky
Director
Robert Stevenson
Writer
Bernard Zimmer
Writer
Claude Farrère
Novel
Roger Hubert
Director of Photography
Leon Garganoff
Producer
André Gailhard
Music

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