The Silent Battle (1937 film)
1937 film
- Jean Bommart (novel)
- Pierre Billon
- Jacques Natanson
- Käthe von Nagy
- Pierre Fresnay
- Michel Simon
Production
company
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Héraut Film
Release date
- 9 September 1937 (1937-09-09)
Running time
The Silent Battle (French: La bataille silencieuse) is a 1937 French thriller film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Fresnay and Michel Simon.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It was remade as a British film of the same title in 1939.
Synopsis
A journalist on the trail of a group of arms smugglers becomes aware of an impending attack on the Orient Express.
Cast
- Käthe von Nagy as Draguicha
- Pierre Fresnay as Bordier
- Michel Simon as Sauvin
- Abel Tarride as Bartoff
- Renée Corciade as L'américaine
- Pierre Sergeol as Fernando
- Geno Ferny as Ernest
- Ernest Ferny as Méricant
- Albert Gercourt as Sanneman
- Pierre Huchet as Le sécretaire
- André Alerme as Le directeur du journal
References
- ^ The A to Z of French Cinema p.174
Bibliography
- Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- The Silent Battle at IMDb
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Films directed by Pierre Billon
- Venetian Nights (1931)
- Should We Wed Them? (1932)
- The Fakir of the Grand Hotel (1934)
- The House on the Dune (1934)
- Bourrasque (1935)
- Second Bureau (1935)
- In the Service of the Tsar (1936)
- Southern Mail (1937)
- The Silent Battle (1937)
- The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois (1943)
- Vautrin (1943)
- Mademoiselle X (1945)
- The Eternal Husband (1946)
- Ruy Blas (1948)
- Agnes of Nothing (1950)
- Chéri (1950)
- Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
- My Friend Oscar (1951)
- My Seal and Them (1951)
- The Merchant of Venice (1953)
- Storm (1954)
- Suspicion (1956)
- Until the Last One (1957)
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