"Although it did get a U.S. release, The Final Test was edited slightly and in any case disappeared almost immediately. It remains the slightest and the least known of all the Asquith-Terence Rattigan collaborations, and one of the most enjoyable. Few British films are so interestingly locked in to their period as this one; the position of the father as undisputed ruler of the household was beginning to waver, though apparently not his somewhat outdated morality; the basically amiable kidding of Americans still contains elements of both scorn and envy, and most of all, the 'art' plays of BBC television are mercilessly lampooned. The many British cricket players who appear throughout will doubtless mean little to American audiences, but Robert Morley, in one of his most unrestrained performances as a witty but pompous bore of a playwright, is literally immense. A climactic chase through suburbia to London is nostalgic as well as amusing-and how the prices of everything have skyrocketed since the film was made nearly forty years ago!" -William K. Everson