A Day to Remember (1955)

Based on The Hand and the Flower a novel by Jerrard Tickell A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter captain of London darts team When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament a good time is had by alland more besides Jim Carver one of the teams members is reunited with a little French girl hed befriended during the war who has now developed into a beautiful young woman And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where hed honeymooned with his late wife The film works best as a lowkey comedydrama it is least successful when it ventures into O Henry territory and strains for surprise story twists Hal Erickson Rovi