Summary Sam Palmer is a cricketer about to play the final test match of his career. His schoolboy son Reggie is a budding poet who disappoints him by not attending the penultimate day's play. Unexpectedly, Reggie is invited to the home of poet and writer Alexander Whitehead. Reggie fears he will also miss the final day--and therefore Sam's last innings--but it turns out that Alexander is a cricket lover. View more details
Directed : Anthony Asquith
Written : Terence Rattigan
Stars : Robert Morley Jack Warner George Relph Adrianne Allen
Genres : Comedy Drama Sport
Release date : May 3, 1953
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Production companies : J. Arthur Rank Organisation Association of Cinema Technicians (A.C.T.)
Summary Sam Palmer is a cricketer about to play the final test match of his career. His schoolboy son Reggie is a budding poet who disappoints him by not attending the penultimate day's play. Unexpectedly, Reggie is invited to the home of poet and writer Alexander Whitehead. Reggie fears he will also miss the final day--and therefore Sam's last innings--but it turns out that Alexander is a cricket lover. View more details
Genres : Comedy Drama Sport
Release date : May 3, 1953
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Production companies : J. Arthur Rank Organisation Association of Cinema Technicians (A.C.T.)