Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story and the dialogue might have been taken from a boy's magazine, the love interest is weak and lamely told, so that we do not mind about the heroine's plight, and the actors are not given enough to do to show themselves to advantage. The film is neither good entertainment nor effective propaganda." [4]
Kine Weekly wrote: "In many ways the film is schoolboy stuff – the plot is naive and the scene of much of the action is reminiscent of comic opera – but by making the most of Service co-operation and resolutely sounding the patriotic note it finally aspires to pretty good mass entertainment. The acting of the principals is above the average, and there is a spectacular culminating thrill. ... Robert Douglas is rather young for the role of naval captain, but he, nevertheless, puts over a sound portrayal; H. B. Warner is dignified as Brent, and Noah Beery and Esme Percy are good as the President and rebel leader respectively ... Topographically the film is artificial, and the development is not too clear, but the detail is occasionally graphic, the machinery of modern warfare is adequately displayed and spectacle comes at the right place, the climax. The authentic trimmings, shrewdly tinged with appropriate sentiment, cover many of the narratal shortcomings." [5]
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