[1] The plot involves a villainous squire and justice of the peace who conspires to have his rival arrested on false charges.
[3] The film was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The novel had been adapted as a 1922 British silent film starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows.
[4] TV Guide wrote: "Great fun in the old cloak-and-dagger melodrama style...Played in an exaggerated, bigger-than-life manner, this melodrama is a good enough outing, particularly for fans of camp.
"[5] Sky Movies wrote: "As usual, Tod Slaughter ignores the intimacy of the film medium and roars through this movie at full throttle, giving the kind of marvellously storming performance that would easily have reached the back row of the upper circle...David MacDonald is more a referee than a conventional director, coming up with a highly entertaining slice of ripe and fruity hokum.