In the opening scene, shot in London Waterloo railway station, the film of the locomotive arriving at the platform is flipped left-to-right, as revealed by the mirror-reversed number on the side of the locomotive cab. This was most likely intentional, so that in the next shot the platform is on the same side of the train.
Final film of Audrey White.
Directed by the son of one Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, The Final Test was the favourite of another, Harold Wilson. (source: Odyssey VHS Release, 1994).
A comment is made that Sam sits in the pantheon of great cricketers, up with "Bradman and W.G.". Don Bradman was an Australian batsman of the 1930s and 1940s, and is generally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time. W.G. Grace was an English all-rounder during the second half of the 19th Century. He is mostly remembered for his batting.
Whitehead complains that Christopher Fry has a ticket for the Test match while he, Whitehead, has not. Christopher Fry was an English poet and playwright, best known for a series of plays written in the 1940s and 1950s, including "The Lady's Not for Burning".