The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Although the cast, especially Cec Linder, perform with admirable seriousness, it remains extremely difficult to accept the highly unlikely characters and events of this smooth slice of romantic melodrama, served rather better by its sets and photography than the subject merits."
Leslie Halliwell said: "Tedious photographed play with precious few points of dramatic interest."
Leonard Maltin gave the film one and a half out of four stars, calling it a "flabby caper," regarding it a "terrible waste of (Hildegard) Neff's talents".
Tony Sloman gave it three out of five stars in the
Radio Times, calling it, "a film that wasn't highly regarded on its release, but thanks to its cast, subject matter and director bears re-evaluation today. (It) features two particularly watchable stars, both of whom have done better work than this. Ageing bobby-sox idol Van Johnson is a better actor than is generally acknowledged; he had a propensity for worried, introverted heroes... The director is Muriel Box, one of the few English women directors to have had a successful screen career, though here she struggles to keep the stage origins of the material hidden. Wilkie Cooper's stark black-and-white photography is excellent." In
British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "successful play makes mild, stagey movie." ==References==