[5] According to a 1988 interview with Val Guest,[6] a number of people had tried to get permission for making a film about the Windmill but been refused by Vivian Van Damm.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Although the story is far from original, the authentic settings, and glimpses of life on the other side of the curtain at the Windmill, are sure to appeal to most audiences, and whilst some of the company seem a little out of their element on the screen, the addition of such seasoned film actors as Eliot Makeham, as Gimpy, and Garry Marsh and Jon Pertwee, as an amusing pair of policemen, lends the necessary support to their efforts.

"[9] Kine Weekly wrote: "Much less ambitious but considerably more entertaining than To-Night and Every Night, America's highly coloured tribute to the "music hall that never closed," it is certain to go down well with the crowd.

"[11] In the Radio Times, David McGillivray wrote, "partly filmed in situ, with performers and staff playing themselves, this creaky whodunnit is a valuable record, within the bounds of the strict censorship of the day, of the lowbrow songs and sketches that made the theatre famous.

Jimmy Edwards's spot, dreadful now, was thought hilarious at the time, and won the whiskery comic his part in radio's celebrated Take It from Here.