Eric Portman

Flora Robson

Sheila Sim

Isabel Jeans

Walter Fitzgerald

Philip Friend

Marjorie Rhodes

Maire O'Neill

John Laurie

Kathleen Harrison

Leslie Dwyer

Margaret Withers

Beatrice Varley

Irene Handl

Patricia Hayes

Jacqueline Clarke

Norman Pierce

Pauline Tennant

John McLaren

Joan Maude

Ivor Barnard

Valentine Dunn

O.B. Clarence

Jean Shepeard

David Ward

Roy Malcolm

Frank Atkinson

Lance Comfort

Wolfgang Wilhelm

Lesley Storm

John Davenport

Percy Dayton

Anthony Hearne

Max Rosher

Victor Hanbury

Sidney Stone

William C. Andrews

Drama

Great Day

Victor Hanbury Productions

RKO Radio British Productions

RKO Radio Pictures

United Kingdom

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Ostensibly, this is just a wartime morale-booster as a group of ladies in a small English hamlet are told of the impending visit of a VIP. With just 24 hours before her arrival, they must spruce up their village and put together some exhibits to demonstrate to their visitor. It's not just about the visit, however - that serves as a lens through which we have a look at a couple of more interesting sub-plots that deal with the lives of the non-military "combatants" of WWII - notably a rather sad scenario with Flora Robson and her husband Eric Porter in which he struggles to feel valued and relevant, and another with their daughter (Sheila Sim) and her marriage opportunities. It's not a perfect film, by any means, but Portman and Robson offer up good performances of what passed for normality during the war for so many people still at home, and though maybe it's a bit slow, it's still a characterful observation well worth a watch.

English