"Diabolique" magazine said the film "isn’t as good as "White Savage" but is still bright fun" arguing Bey's casting "throws the movie off -Sabu was a big kid but Bey is more mature, suave, grown up, with careful pro-noun-ci-ation – Sabu was never a sexual rival to Hall but Bey he could be and Lubin gives him all these close ups of him looking dreamy (the director and Lubin had clearly decided to build him into a star).