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Auction History Result 9f0267 LA BATAILLE Czech 12x37 1934 Charles Boyer, Asian Annabella & John Loder, ship guns, rare! Date Sold 7/6/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Czechoslovakian Movie Poster (measures 12" x 37 1/4" [30 x 95 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Note also that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good. The poster has slight discoloration scattered in some areas. This is the kind of poster that responds really well to restoration. It is likely that much or most of the slight discoloration can be removed chemically, and after proper restoration the rare poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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