A Day to Remember

9/5/2025

Under the captaincy of the rather pompous “Fred” (James Hayter) a gang of blokes who play darts in the same London boozer decide to take their annual seaside trip to the other side of the Channel this year, and so board the ferry to Boulogne. They are an eclectic bunch who rather stereotypically epitomise the English abroad - beer and steak and kidney pudding, a stiff upper lip and some antics with les mademoiselles that come to centre, rather sentimentally, on the rather dreary “Jim” (Donald Sinden) who has a bored girlfriend at home and “Martine” (Odile Versois). That romance does rather drag the pace a bit but even with his character, the reminiscences of the war are never far away and usually rather delicately expressed through a combination of mischief and Churchillian spirit. Stanley