[3] The film was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton.

[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The melodramatic plot might well have given scope for an interesting character study of Jacques Vauthier; but the director, George More O'Ferrall, makes little use of filmic effects to suggest the extraordinary loneliness of a man unable to hear, see or speak, confronted with a charge of murder.

Michael Redgrave, as the ageing lawyer, seems a little uncertain as to the proper interpretation of the part, and some of his lines are lost on their way through a large ragged beard.

"[5] Leslie Halliwell said: "Plodding courtroom drama with familiar faces in unconvincingly French guise.

"[7] In The New York Times, its film critic Bosley Crowther concluded: "The Green Scarf is a mottled and unconvincing thing.