Cordial Agreement

Release Date: 1939-04-20

Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.

Rating: 5.4 / 10

Cast

Victor Francen

as Edouard VII, Prince and King

Bernard Lancret

as Jean Roussel

Pierre Richard-Willm

as Capt. Charles Roussel

Janine Darcey

as Sylvia Clayton

Gaby Morlay

as Queen Victoria