[1] Filmink called it "one of those actor-proof plays ready made for amateurs and would be a fun night at the theatre if the ticket prices weren’t too high.

The Sydney Morning Herald said "Well written and full of dramatic surprise the play deserves the attention of the professional theatre.

[11] Leslie Rees later observed: The author succeeded in making you like his young couple as well as believe in them; and when the sticky web closed round Monica, you shared their shock, amazement, and fear.

In other words, the play was not merely a piece of pattern-making, ingenious, logical, unexpected and knit into current events and dangers, but it also had human quality.

[12]The play was also optioned for production on Broadway, although it was rewritten by Alexander Kirkland to be set in Melbourne, Australia and be about a Japanese spy ring.

The character of Bill Sefton was changed to an American soldier who was stationed in Melbourne, and his wife Monica now grew up in Japan, not Germany.

[18][19] The Cincinnati Enquirer said "there is not the tiniest suspicion of comedy throughout and the only mystery about the entire sorry affair is how in the name of things theatrical it was produced in the first place.

"[22] Variety said "Those Detroit critics indulged in wishful thinking when they pegged Lady in Danger a good thing, which it isn't.

At least they inspired false hope within a couple of young, aspiring managers... Australian import is wrongly billed as a comedy -mystery, for there is nothing to laugh at in the story of Japanazi doings in Melbourne.