Great Day is a 1945 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Flora Robson.
[3] The small (fictional) English village of Denley is thrown into excitement by the impending 'surprise' visit of Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is loved by the farm's owner, who is twice her age, but is reluctant to allow him to announce their engagement, as she is still being wooed by her former boyfriend, now an Army officer.
Captain John Ellis, her father, a decorated hero of the First World War and now a frustrated alcoholic, is arrested in a local pub for attempted theft of a ten shilling note to buy drinks.
The Variety review states that it "has much to commend it, yet is not wholly satisfying ... Sheila Sim is fresh and natural ... Flora Robson and Eric Portman are excellent as the worried parents ... Makes pleasant entertainment of the second-feature class.