[4] Reviewing the 1953 production The Age said "There was plenty of scope for good drama but the whole thing petered out most miserably when the girl, who was no better than she should have been, ran away with some bushrangers and the disillusioned" young man responded to the pleadings of his brother- to return to England.
"[5] ABC Weekly said "we seemed set for a romantic tale of gallantry and love, but the journey (or was it the pious atmosphere of Hobart Town?
), transformed the hero into a sanctimonious and weakly poetic missionary whom no girl, honest or otherwise, could have put up with for five minutes.
"[6] According to ABC Weekly, "Robert Clare is an English younger son, an idealist with a sensitive eye for beauty.
At the country home of the elder brother Stephen he sees a girl standing in a garden with a sheaf of daffodils in her arms.