[4] The story had already been previously adapted to film: first by Clarence Brown as The Eagle, and Dubrovsky by Alexsandr Ivanovsky.

[4] Specifically, Freda recalled that the producers "could not imagine how our ciociari [the inhabitants of the South-East Lazio countryside] could play Cossacks".

[6] Curti was proud of the film's success stating that the film "blasted off like a bomb to chase away the fetid miasmas of neorealism" and that he recalled the theater owner of Civitavecchia writing him a letter to alert him when these productions would happen beforehand, as audiences were "so enthusiastic that they uprooted the theater's seats" which Freda remarked that it would "not happen with Umberto D".

[8] The review declared the film "a piece of Italian spectacle" noting that "the treatment is energetic but unimpressive and the atmosphere far from credible".

[8] The review found the dubbing poor stating that it made it "difficult to judge the film on its real merit".