"Another from this season's collection of 1947 British film noir (with They Made Me a Fugitive and Daybreak, May 30, and It Always Rains on Sunday, May 31). Anthony Kimmins, having directed a quintet of George Formby comedies, saw naval service during the war and then returned to direct this totally out of character psychological thriller, his most serious and ambitious film to date, and quite probably his best. Burgess Meredith plays a lay psychiatrist who suspects he may be out of his depth in trying to cure a potentially homicidal war veteran. It's based on a contemporary novel by Nigel Balchin, whose not dissimilar Small Back Room was filmed by Michael Powell just one year later." William K. Everson