[3] Shot cheaply in 17 days without period costumes, Robert Conrad recalled that he only did the film to repay a favor to his friend Nick Adams.

[5] John Ashley says the film "was basically all of (producer) Al Zimbalist's footage of machine guns and crashing cars from Baby Face Nelson (1957).

The Los Angeles Times called it "a B picture with A virtues... good performances... crisp direction... fast moving and full of action.

[11] Cinema Retro later wrote "the movie breezes along at a brisk pace even if the style is quite unimpressive and pedestrian.

In fact, the film looks like a standard TV episode of "The Untouchables" in terms of production values...The performances are adequate, nothing more.