Bianchi decides that taking a couple of days off work is a small price to pay for saving Maria's honour for the rest of her life and gets off the train with her.

The New York Times wrote in 1948: "Although the Italian film artisans have been garnering justifiable acclaim here for the biting realism of their topical portraits, kudos has not been the rule where other themes were concerned.

Concerning the storyline, the critic wrote that "the improbability is outweighed by the performances of the cast and adeptness of direction, which makes Four Steps in the Clouds both believable and diverting.

[3] The critics wrote about Four Steps in the Clouds: Especially the first part of Blasetti's comedy, which takes place in a crowded bus, comes across (despite its unrefined observations) as a striking novelty and a veritable photograph of life.

Its second lyrical-nostalgic part is not weaker that the first, although with its popular-generic tone it shows only the surface of events and reduces feelings to simple opposites: dislike and friendship, obstinacy and tolerance, despair and joy.

[3]The film was remade as The Virtuous Bigamist in 1956, as A Walk in the Clouds in 1995, as Mungarina Minchu in 1997 , as Pooveli in 1998 , as Alludugaaru Vachcharu in 1999 and as Dhai Akshar Prem Ke in 2000.