A Glimpse of Paradise

Kine Weekly wrote: "Loosely put together and, with few exceptions, indifferently acted. The final twist certainly creates a surprise, but it comes too late to atone for that which has tediously gonebLefore. The film may satisfy the unsophisticated in a supporting feature capacity, but apart from its qualification for quota it has really very little to recommend it  ... George Carney is not too bad as Jim; he blends humour with sentiment quite successfully; and Wally Patch during the all too few moments he visits the screen is amusing as Harry. The rest of the players are very stagey. ... The story is so obviously machine-made that it fails to strike the emotions and only occasionally succeeds in providing amusement."^[4]

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Narrative defies credulity, resolving into ludicrous hotchpotch of melodrama and bathos, long arm of coincidence being worked ad nauseam. Sole entertainment values are vested in comicalities of Margaret Yarde and Walter Patch. Booking for the uncritical only."^[5]

Picturegoer wrote: "George Carney puts up quite a good performance as an ex convict turned vagrant, who comes to the aid of his daughter, who is being blackmailed, but otherwise there is very little to recommend in this indifferently acted and machine-made production."^[6]

Picture Show wrote: "George Carney as Jim Bigsworth, ex-convict, does not appear to have been well cast, although at times he is quite good. Margaret Yarde as Mrs. Kidd, the owner of a fish-and-chip shop, is most amusing. Fair entertainment."^[7]

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