"The first of an ambitious program of British films aimed at the American market by Exclusive, forerunners of Hammer, Cloudburst was quite well received here initially and then totally disappeared. Although film noir was waning in the fifties, it was still a force-and mood often counted for more than plot. The quirkiness of this tale shouldn't surprise as it was written by Leo Marks (Peeping Tom, The Webster Boy), and it says much for the general public enthusiasm for noir at the time that it would accept such a basically unappetizing story of revenge, with Robert Preston as determined as Captain Ahab to run to earth the accidental killer of his wife." -William K. Everson