Derek Malcolm of The Guardian said "it was scarcely worth seeing even as a curiosity, a fact that Mr Hill openly admits".

[7] Box Office wrote; "An uncompromising, poignantly probing dramatization of what will probably be the decade's most sordid story of professionalized vice. ...

It has the "name" of John Drew Barrymore, son of The Great Profile, and the pacing conventionally accepted within this sphere-and-scope, and while the kiddie trade and the more impressionable viewers shouldn't be encouraged, of course, there is enough of an adult audience for this to play profitably.

Yvonne Buckingham is a winsome Christine, and Barrymore delineates the tragic Ward figure with an impressive style.

Alicia Brandet, as Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine's girl friend, and Mel Welles, as the Soviet naval attache with a wandering eye, contribute adequately.