[1][2] It was written by England based (uncredited) on the 1908 play Madame X by the French playwright Alexandre Bisson.

Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not know who she is.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Old-fashioned novelette of the crudest order, weakly realised and played in such a theatrical fashion that, if the sound were cut off, one might be prepared to believe one was watching a film of the twenties.

In a general atmosphere of fervent over-acting or wooden amateurism, only Paul England, as the blackmailing detective, manages to bring any degree of conviction to his part.

"[3] Kine Weekly wrote: "It strikes an unhappy note at the start, clumsily piles on the agony and slowly sinks into bathos.