eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9f800 LA BATAILLE French 1p 1934 Noel art of Charles Boyer, Asian Annabella & John Loder, rare! Date Sold 9/24/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 47 1/4" x 63" [120 x 160 cm]) (Learn More) La Bataille (literally translates to "Battle"), the 1933 Nicolas Farkas & Viktor Tourjansky French/English Japan interracial romance romantic love triangle military war melodrama (based on the novel by Claude Farrere; about a Japanese nobleman who discovers his wife is having an affair with an English Naval officer, and he has the officer transferred to a battleship where he is killed, and then the Japanese nobleman is distraught over what he has done, and he and his wife commit ritual suicide) starring Charles Boyer, Annabella, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld, Valery Inkijinoff. Note that the movie had been earlier filmed in 1923 reasonably starring Sessue Hayakawa and his wife, actress Tsuru Aoki. For this version, both of the top billed stars had to wear "yellowface" makeup! This movie was filmed in French, but an English language version was filmed simultaneously (with Boyer still in the lead, but with Merle Oberon replacing Annabella, and many other cast changes) and was released as "The Battle" in England, and the following year was released as "Thunder in the East" in the U.S. Also note that Charles Boyer was a college graduate with a philosophy degree, and he appeared in a few movies in his early 20s. He had greater success in talking movies, thanks to his distinctive French accent (which Chuck Jones "borrowed" for his character Pepe Le Pew), but he had his greatest success in Hollywood in the early 1940s, when many of the top U.S. stars were away in World War II. It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Guy Gerard Noel Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this French poster, which is a "country of origin" poster for this partially French movie! Also note that this is an extremely rare pre-World War II French poster! Virtually no French posters survive from before, during, or right after World War II. Apparently there were many paper shortages in France during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades
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