The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The comedy idea of an aging merry widow who falls for her "son" might have been ghoulishly amusing under the care of a
Wilder or a
Lubitsch. As it is, the laboured treatment, the tedious hamming and clowning and the ersatz staging merely accentuate the film's prevailing unpleasantness."
Kine Weekly wrote: "Romantic Comedy, 'embellished' by slapstick. ... The tale is supposed to unfold in Sweden, but its characters are, with few exceptions, borrowed from time-honoured English stage farce. An occasional laugh is raised when it finally descends to knockabout, but transparent preliminaries will make other than undemanding yawn. ... The picture has a bright Charleston sequence and a hectic finale, but otherwise 'bounds' from one tired cliche to another with somnambulistic predictability. Sydney Chaplin works hard as Eddie, but is definitely not in his father's class, Dawn Addams makes a very skittish Janet, and Elspeth March 'hams' as the ample Astrid. The rest are merely stooges. Its staging is by no means cramped, but unmistakably ersatz." ==References==