The Face of Love is a 1954 BBC TV movie produced and directed by Alvin Rakoff, and adapted from Troilus and Cressida as a modern-language and modern-dress drama[1] by Ian Dallas, a RADA graduate later better known as a scholar of sufism.
The TV film starred Laurence Payne as Troilus, Mary Morris as Cressida, along with John Breslin as Aeneas, Janet Butler as Philomena, John Charlesworth as Aidos, Maurice Colbourne as the Trojan statesman Pandarus, George Rose as Philo, a Trojan sergeant.
There was a general increase in BBC artists' fees, but Cushing's growing standing as a film actor must have given [his agent] John Redway extra clout".
[3] The London Evening News reviewer commented "The acting of Mary Morris, Laurence Payne and Peter Cushing was among the best yet seen".
The principal of RADA, John Fernald, gave the lead role of Troilus to a then unknown student, Albert Finney.