Submitted to the British Board of Film Censors under the title The Stain on the Snow by Miracle Films, but refused a certificate on 20 January 1955. Nevertheless, cinema manager and future film author Leslie Halliwell soon persuaded the Cambridge local authority to pass this film and The Wild One (1953) with local "X" certificates. Halliwell premiered both films in 1955 at his Rex cinema in Cambridge. The BBFC eventually passed The Stain on the Snow with an official "X" certificate on 3 September 1958. Miracle opened the film on 23 November 1958 at the Berkeley cinema in London where it ran for eight weeks.