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Auction History Result 5k182 LA BATAILLE German program '34 Charles Boyer, pretty Annabella in Asian makeup & costume! Date Sold 8/29/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1934 (from the first release of this movie in Germany) Vintage German Film Program (measures 8 3/4" x 11 1/2" [22 x 29 cm]; 8 pages) (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. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the eight pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are four pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended). Condition: good. There are two punch holes in the spine of all eight pages, which has some effect on the images and writing (the program was once kept in a 2-ring binder). Learn More about condition grades 
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