The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald felt that the film was clearly modelled on American movies: "The little sketches beneath the text of the captions exactly resemble those that adorn the Christie comedies.
There are pie-slinging episodes, bathing beauties, crooks, who raid Jewellers shops, and scenes in which undergarments play a prominent part.
It may be an accident that one of Mr. Ward's crooks bears the same name ("Spike" Malone), as a shady character in Richard Dix"s picture "Manhattan", released here a few weeks ago.
These efforts to achieve variety by patching together the most diversely coloured materials, from gaudy farce to sombre melodrama, have succeeded only in leaving the story rambling and incoherent.
One realizes that Australian producers cannot afford to spend large sums on elaborate interiors, and so forth; but surely we are entitled to look for something more attractive than back lanes.