Adultery, embezzlement and murder are all taken in his stride by Peter Vaughn as the insurance claims inspector who suspects that there is more to a blazing car wreck than meets the eye.

While all around him give typically second-division performances, Vaughan plays with a dogged determination that is efficient, engaging and quite at odds with the more sinister characters he would essay later in his career.

"[4] BFI Screenonline described the film as "an utterly charming B-film comedy-thriller that emphasises character as much as plot and makes full use of extensive location footage.

The standard British second feature crime setting – a nightclub run by Cypriot/Maltese/Generally Swarthy types and populated by a dozen underpaid extras – is mercifully absent, as is any hint of a low-budget car chase. ...

They describe it as an "uncommonly neat little insurance racket-cum-murder thriller" and praise the way that its comic relief is "built into the fabric of the film's main narrative action".