 Wilcox claims the reviews he received were among the worst of his career.However he said the film recovered its cost from screening in Australia alone.In contemporary reviews, Frank Nugent in "The New York Times" wrote, "The chief merit of "Blue Danube," a British film now showing at the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse, is its presentation of Alfred Rode and his Royal Tzigany Band, a group of eighteen Hungarian gypsy musicians.