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Director Curtis Bernhardt (The Merry Widow) has done some inspired casting: Peter Ustinov plays the Prince of Wales and Robert Morley his potty papa. These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head. Morley, as the monarch who "talks to trees [and] mixes paint with his feet," is the winner by a cornea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Screenwriter Terrence Rattigan has obviously written a satire. But with the exception of a few wonderful scenes invilving Robert Morley as a egotistical poet, The Final Test resembles too closely the kind of film it lampoons...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: The Final Test and Stratford Adventure | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Died. Ken Buck, 22, star end (1951-53) at the College of the Pacific, 1953 co-holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Crazy Sports Shirt. Picked from 16,000 applicants from West Germany, Gundolf arrived in August, was made to feel at home right from the start. His hosts were Mr. and Mrs. John Morley, who had volunteered to adopt an exchange student for a year because "there was little enough we could do to help out in this world." Since then, Gundolf has been a member of the family. "Can you imagine" says he, "I have one of their rooms and all their food and they give me presents. These denims I'm wearing, and this, how you say, crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: You Made Me One of You | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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