 Modern views about the film are mixed.Film historian George Perry describes the film in his 1991 book "Forever Ealing"  as, ""... another of Ealing’s attempts at a behind the scenes approach – this time an anatomy of London Airport, a much smaller community in the mid-Fifties than now.Compared with Arthur Hailey’s treatment of the same formula in the Sixties in his novel 'Airport', the result is remarkably tame.