David Niven and director Jerzy Skolimowski planned to re-team immediately on " The Barbary Light " based on the Penelope Mortimer novel, but the failure of " King, Queen, Knave " led to its cancellation.
Although it got some good reviews in Britain, this Skolimowski movie was largely dismissed by critics as an out-and-out failure, and was a big box-office flop. One of its most savage critics was its own director, who was quoted as saying, "I'm an artist - and yet I made this piece of shit!"