Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "There is a striking story here, and the disappointment is that the film has left it unexplored. The way in which Raine is used, the motives, doubts, stifling of scruples among the people using him, are the real material, rather than the pre-determined fate of the victim himself. But the film tells its story in flashback, leaving itself no element of surprise; encourages Harry Andrews to play Rawson on a note of cool indifference (which drastically weakens his case); and allows Suzy Parker's crisis of conscience to become apparent only in a few bitten lips and misty smiles. We are left, consequently, with nothing much to wait for beyond the torture scene, and there is something morbid about a film in which routine dramatics are engineered to lead up to such an episode. This, it should be said, was probably not the intention: the torture is not staged for sensation, and the effect produced is mainly a matter of unimaginative plotting and approach. Jack Lee's direction is a bit flat, quickening into life in some of the action scenes." [4]
In The Radio Times Guide to Films Robyn Karney gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "Well-directed by Jack Lee, with convincing performances from Dillman and a host of first-class English stage and TV actors, this is a decent espionage drama." [5]
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