 The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Haacker.Writing for "The Spectator" in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly negative review, characterizing the film as "dull [and] a curiosity, a relic of the classical German film of silent days".Negatively comparing the film to Galeen's 1926 version of the story, Greene found that the story was less believable and the acting less memorable.