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.
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
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Cast
Victor Francen
Edouard VII, Prince and King
Bernard Lancret
Jean Roussel
Pierre Richard-Willm
Capt. Charles Roussel
Janine Darcey
Sylvia Clayton
Gaby Morlay
Queen Victoria
Jean Périer
President Emile Loubet
Jacques Baumer
Georges Clemenceau
Louis Seigner
German ambassador
André Lefaur
Lord Clayton
Arlette Marchal
Queen Alexandra
Junie Astor
Actress
Marcelle Praince
Lady Clayton
Nita Raya
Music Hall Star
Carine Nelson
Marjorie, lady-in-waiting
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