The film is regarded as a film noir, one of the earliest examples of the genre to be produced in the United Kingdom. Film historian Andrew Spicer considers it remarkable in the genre due to its "sustained doom-laden atmosphere".
The film is based on a novel by the writer Frederick Laurence Green (1902-1953) who was still at the beginning of his career. "On the Night of the Fire" (1939) was his second novel.
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