Producer David Irving and director Michael Pressmen succeeded in getting a distribution guarantee from Roger Corman at New World Pictures which helped them raise the $200,000 budget.

"[9] Variety called it "a good example of a well-made exploitation film which works on two levels, providing kicks for the ozoner crowd and tongue-in-cheek humor for the more sophisticated.

"[4] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Like every other low-budget, regional melodrama of this kind, the movie is virtually constructed of automobile chases in which every shot of the lead car turning a corner, hitting a bump or swerving to avoid a truck must be repeated by a shot of the pursuing car dealing with the same set of circumstances.

"[10] Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times stated, "Producer David Irving makes an auspicious first feature debut in this stylish and enjoyable fantasy about friendship among thieves.

One of the countless low-budgeted cops-chaseheroes/heroines-on-dusty-southern-backroads pictures that have been made since Thunder Road (1958) and the peak drive-in era, it lacks the excitement, humor, and even the sweaty rednecks that can be found in most films of the genre.