Weaver noted that Ford and cinematographer Reggie Lanning added "solid contributions to the ominous atmosphere", but that the main issue was that Robert Livingston and Adrian Booth were both often had dialogue that was meant to be clever or cute but was rarely anything clever or witty about it. Weaver concluded that the film was probably corny by 1940s standards, and was "just another b movie in a world overfilled with them."
