Director George King, who regularly delivered the goods in his rousing Victorian Tod Slaughter vehicles of the thirties seriously comes a cropper attempting here to address grim contemporary events in Occupied Europe on a shoestring. Cardboard characters strike poses and mouth banalities against a backdrop of cardboard studio exteriors, failing utterly to rise to the challenge presented by the enormities depicted abroad, doubtless inspired by the recent destruction by the Germans of the Czech town of Lidice.
King did a considerably better job with similar subject matter on his next film 'Candlelight in Algeria' (1944).
King did a considerably better job with similar subject matter on his next film 'Candlelight in Algeria' (1944).