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	\| image = A Day to Remember ~~poster~~.jpg		\| image = A Day to Remember (1953 film).jpg
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	\| caption = Theatrical release poster		\| caption = Theatrical release poster
	\| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]		\| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
	\| producer = [[Betty Box]]		\| producer = [[Betty Box]]
	\| writer = [[Robin Estridge]]		\| writer = [[w:Robin Estridge\|Robin Estridge]]
	\| based_on = {{based on\|The Hand and the Flower\|[[Jerrard Tickell]]}}		\| based_on = {{based on\|The Hand and the Flower\|[[w:Jerrard Tickell\|Jerrard Tickell]]}}
	\| starring = [[Stanley Holloway]]<br>[[Joan Rice]]<br>[[Odile Versois]]<br>[[Donald Sinden]]<br>[[James Hayter (actor)\|James Hayter]]		\| starring = [[Stanley Holloway]]<br>[[Joan Rice]]<br>[[Odile Versois]]<br>[[Donald Sinden]]<br>[[James Hayter (actor)\|James Hayter]]
	\| music = [[Clifton Parker]]		\| music = [[w:Clifton Parker]]
	\| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]		\| cinematography = [[w:Ernest Steward]]
	\| editing = [[Gerald Thomas]]		\| editing = [[Gerald Thomas]]
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	'''''A Day to Remember''''' is a 1953 British [[comedy film\|comedy]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring an [[ensemble cast]] including [[Stanley Holloway]], [[Donald Sinden]], [[James Hayter (actor)\|James Hayter]] and [[Bill Owen (actor)\|Bill Owen]].		'''''A Day to Remember''''' is a 1953 British [[w:comedy film\|comedy]] [[w:drama film\|drama film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring an [[w:ensemble cast\|ensemble cast]] including [[Stanley Holloway]], [[Donald Sinden]], [[James Hayter (actor)\|James Hayter]] and [[Bill Owen (actor)\|Bill Owen]].

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	The [[darts]] team of a [[London]] [[public house]] go on a [[day trip]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]] in [[France]]. On the eve of their visit to France, the members of the Hand & Flower pub darts team gather for a drink. The day trip has been organised by one of the team, Percy, who is a travel agent. For some of the team, it is their first ever trip abroad, while for others it is the first time they have returned to France since their service in [[World War I]] or [[World War II]]. Charley is looking forward to meeting some French ''mademoiselles'', but Fred, the pub's married landlord, says there'll be none of that sort of thing. Stan has a plan to buy watches in France and smuggle them back into Britain, avoiding customs duty. Jim is going through a rocky patch with his fiancée, whom he suspects considers him to be boring and staid.		The [[w:darts\|darts]] team of a [[w:London\|London]] [[w:public house\|public house]] go on a [[w:day trip\|day trip]] to [[w:Boulogne-sur-Mer\|Boulogne-sur-Mer]] in [[w:France\|France]]. On the eve of their visit to France, the members of the Hand & Flower pub darts team gather for a drink. The day trip has been organised by one of the team, Percy, who is a travel agent. For some of the team, it is their first ever trip abroad, while for others it is the first time they have returned to France since their service in [[w:World War I\|World War I]] or [[w:World War II\|World War II]]. Charley is looking forward to meeting some French ''mademoiselles'', but Fred, the pub's married landlord, says there'll be none of that sort of thing. Stan has a plan to buy watches in France and smuggle them back into Britain, avoiding customs duty. Jim is going through a rocky patch with his fiancée, whom he suspects considers him to be boring and staid.

	The following day, the group meet at [[London Victoria railway station\|London Victoria station]] and catch the [[boat train]] to [[Folkestone Harbour station]] for the ferry across the [[English Channel]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]]. Once they have landed in France, despite the insistence of Fred that they stick together, Jim departs to visit the area where he had been involved in heavy fighting during 1944 when British troops had arrived to liberate France. In the local florists, the shop owners refuse to take his money for flowers for his friend's grave. After taking them to the cemetery where his comrade is buried, he visits a local farm and meets Martine, with whom he spent time eight years before when she was eleven. Now an attractive young woman, she recognises him and invites him to have lunch with her family who also remember him. They immediately strike up a chemistry, which his relationship with his fiancée in England lacks. However, Martine is engaged to a local lawyer who is expecting to land a prestigious partnership in Paris.		The following day, the group meet at [[London Victoria railway station\|London Victoria station]] and catch the [[boat train]] to [[Folkestone Harbour station]] for the ferry across the [[English Channel]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]]. Once they have landed in France, despite the insistence of Fred that they stick together, Jim departs to visit the area where he had been involved in heavy fighting during 1944 when British troops had arrived to liberate France. In the local florists, the shop owners refuse to take his money for flowers for his friend's grave. After taking them to the cemetery where his comrade is buried, he visits a local farm and meets Martine, with whom he spent time eight years before when she was eleven. Now an attractive young woman, she recognises him and invites him to have lunch with her family who also remember him. They immediately strike up a chemistry, which his relationship with his fiancée in England lacks. However, Martine is engaged to a local lawyer who is expecting to land a prestigious partnership in Paris.
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{{short description|1953 film by Ralph Thomas}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox film
| name = A Day to Remember
| image = A Day to Remember poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
| producer = [[Betty Box]]
| writer = [[Robin Estridge]]
| based_on = {{based on|The Hand and the Flower|[[Jerrard Tickell]]}}
| starring = [[Stanley Holloway]] [[Joan Rice]] [[Odile Versois]] [[Donald Sinden]] [[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]]
| music = [[Clifton Parker]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]
| editing = [[Gerald Thomas]]
| studio =
| distributor = '''United States:''' [[General Film Distributors]] [[Republic Pictures]]
| released = '''United Kingdom:''' 10 November 1953 '''United States:''' 29 March 1955
| runtime =
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''A Day to Remember''''' is a 1953 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring an [[ensemble cast]] including [[Stanley Holloway]], [[Donald Sinden]], [[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]] and [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]].

==Plot==
The [[darts]] team of a [[London]] [[public house]] go on a [[day trip]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]] in [[France]]. On the eve of their visit to France, the members of the Hand & Flower pub darts team gather for a drink. The day trip has been organised by one of the team, Percy, who is a travel agent. For some of the team, it is their first ever trip abroad, while for others it is the first time they have returned to France since their service in [[World War I]] or [[World War II]]. Charley is looking forward to meeting some French ''mademoiselles'', but Fred, the pub's married landlord, says there'll be none of that sort of thing. Stan has a plan to buy watches in France and smuggle them back into Britain, avoiding customs duty. Jim is going through a rocky patch with his fiancée, whom he suspects considers him to be boring and staid.

The following day, the group meet at [[London Victoria railway station|London Victoria station]] and catch the [[boat train]] to [[Folkestone Harbour station]] for the ferry across the [[English Channel]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]]. Once they have landed in France, despite the insistence of Fred that they stick together, Jim departs to visit the area where he had been involved in heavy fighting during 1944 when British troops had arrived to liberate France. In the local florists, the shop owners refuse to take his money for flowers for his friend's grave. After taking them to the cemetery where his comrade is buried, he visits a local farm and meets Martine, with whom he spent time eight years before when she was eleven. Now an attractive young woman, she recognises him and invites him to have lunch with her family who also remember him. They immediately strike up a chemistry, which his relationship with his fiancée in England lacks. However, Martine is engaged to a local lawyer who is expecting to land a prestigious partnership in Paris.

Back in town, the rest of the group enjoy lunch in a cafe and then separate to tour around the town. Stan goes and picks up his black market watches, while "Shorty", stewing over those who use his resented nickname, gets drunk and joins the [[French Foreign Legion]], in spite of Charley's efforts to stop him. Fred is enticed by a young woman into a bar and she persuades him to buy champagne for them and dance with her. He is embarrassed when Charley finds him in there. Percy, the travel agent, becomes violently homesick and desperate for a cup of tea.

Reassembling, the group attempt but fail to retrieve Shorty from service in the Foreign Legion, and then drift towards the docks and the ship for the return trip, wondering what has happened to Jim who has been missing all day. Stan sees a policeman calling to him, so, thinking he knows about the watches, throws them into the water; but he only wants to return Stan's passport which he had left at the customs check.

Jim has fallen in love with Martine, but they argue over whether they can be together, and he heads for the docks, while Martine goes to rejoin her fiancée. But once there, she tells him she does not love him and cannot marry him, and then drives hurriedly towards the docks. Meanwhile, on a blind date with a friend, Jim's fiancée in London has met and struck up a relationship with an American serviceman. Arriving as his ship is leaving, Martine shouts her true feelings for Jim, and they agree to meet again when he returns to France.

==Cast==
*[[Stanley Holloway]] as Charley Porter
*[[Donald Sinden]] as Jim Carver
*[[Joan Rice]] as Vera Mitchell
*[[Odile Versois]] as Martine Berthier
*[[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]] as Fred Collins
*[[Harry Fowler]] as Stan Harvey
*[[Edward Chapman (actor)|Edward Chapman]] as Mr. Robinson
*[[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as Percy Goodall
*[[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]] as "Shorty" Sharpe
*[[Meredith Edwards (actor)|Meredith Edwards]] as Bert Tripp
*[[George Coulouris]] as Foreign Legion Captain.
*Vernon Gray as Marvin
*[[Thora Hird]] as Mrs. Trott
*[[Theodore Bikel]] as Henri Dubot
*[[Brenda De Banzie]] as Mrs. Collins
*[[Lily Kann]] as Martine's Grandmother
* [[Georgette Anys]] as Jeanne Sautet
* [[Marianne Stone]] as Doreen
*[[Shirley Eaton]] as Young Woman on Ferry (uncredited)
* Jacques Cey as Maurice

==Production==
The film was based on ''The Hand and Flower'', a 1952 novel by Jerrard Tickell, who had written ''[[Appointment with Venus]]'', also filmed by Betty Box and Ralph Thomas.<ref>{{cite news|title=Random observations on pictures and people |first=Howard |last=Thompson |work=The New York Times|date= 20 September 1953 |page= X5}}</ref> It was partly filmed on location in Boulogne.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57836555 |title=Sinden again in naval role |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)]] |volume=43 |issue=2,143 |location=South Australia |date=4 July 1953 |accessdate=24 May 2016 |page=7 (SUNDAY MAGAZINE) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0045672|A Day to Remember}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160807192628/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/A-Day-to-Remember_1953 ''A Day to Remember''] at Britmovie
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