[1] Unlike previous films starring Walls and Lynn, it was based on an original screenplay rather than one of the Aldwych Farces.

[2] Both Walls and Lynn played dual roles of two Boer War veterans and their son and grandson respectively.

Many years later the younger Doubleday has grown to be a master criminal who has never been caught by the police, but whose plans for a major job are ruined by the interference of his ex-convict father.

The Radio Times wrote, "this Ben Travers comedy keeps promising to burst into life, but is eventually snuffed out by the endless round of deceptions and misunderstandings that were the trademark of his celebrated Aldwych productions.

Greene praised the acting of both Walls and Lynn who play multiple characters throughout the film, and stated that his only complaint was that it was "a little marred by an inability to remain wholly flippant.