 When it was finally aired on commercial television in 1977, it was retitled "Never Give A Inch" [sic], a reference to the Stamper family philosophy.Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called it "an extremely interesting, if impure (happily impure, I might add) example of a genre of action film that flourished in the 1930s in movies about tuna fishermen, bush pilots, high-wire repairmen and just about any physical pursuit you can think of ..