The Final Test (1953)

Robert Morley: Alexander Whitehead

Quotes 

• Reggie Palmer : I'm afraid I don't awfully like cricket.

  Alexander Whitehead : Don't you really? I have heard of such people.

• Alexander Whitehead : Why don't you like cricket?

  Reggie Palmer : Well the fact of the matter is I find it so frightfully dull.

  Alexander Whitehead : Frightfully dull? Well of course it's frightfully dull - that's the whole point. Any game can be exciting - football, dirt-track racing, roulette. The measure of the vast superiority of cricket over any other game is that it steadfastly refuses to cater to this boorish craving for excitement.

• Alexander Whitehead : Chekhov and cricket - great similarity you know. Same sense of shape and pattern, form and design. Each done with that superbly satisfying art which conceals art. The same passion for the beautifully inconclusive.