The play was first staged in Glasgow at the King's Theatre and starred Henry Longhurst, Catherine Lacey and James Mason.

[1] In September 1940, it opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre and starred Alexander Knox and Jessica Tandy.

[2] Film adaptations include Shining Victory, with James Stephenson and Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Ich suche Dich ("I Seek You") with O.W.

[3] Brooks Atkinson panned the play in his September 10, 1940, review in The New York Times, criticizing the work itself and its realization.

If the drama has any interior meaning, it does not penetrate the mechanical performance that Reginald Denham has directed.