 These changes—including a narration by a priest character and prologue and epilogue—were designed to gain the film wider audience appeal.The film still turns up now and then as an acknowledged curiosity piece in the film noir genre.Brady, a Roman Catholic with a social conscience, followed up "Edge of Doom" with "Signs and Wonders" in 1953, yet another novel that criticized the church, in particular what he saw as the phony piety and narrowmindedness of so-called “professional” Catholics of the Knights of Columbus variety.