"Although it has its elements of mystery and intrigue, Victor Canning mainly wrote novels of adventure and suspense...(and The Golden Salamander)...moves, develops plot in terms of new characters and changing locations, and certainly benefits from the considerable location shooting in Tunis.... British films, then still riding on the (diminishing) crest of their wartime and immediate postwar success, were still trying for 'class', aiming at the American market with suspense and adventure tales of this type...but not in any way trying to copy the Hollywood product. That would come later and would prove unsuccessful. The Golden Salamander had a good deal going for it, not least in that Trevor Howard was still at his peak as a...romantic leading man who was also a major actor of distinction... Causing even more excitement at the time was new French star Anouk (Aimee) who had taken London critics (and art-house audiences) by storm with her performance in Cayette's Les Amants de Verone.... Director Ronald Neame...had formerly been an excellent cameraman and then a producer...." William K. Everson