The films reception was poor, due to its bad special effects and Scottish stereotypes.

Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception (New York University Press, 2000)

(Gledhill 1954, p. 44) This demand for a wider and less myopic frame of analysis has only recently and partially begun to be met, primarily in a shift towards an interest in actual spectatorship, but also in related issues such as the experience of viewing and the role of cultural differences in film reception and production.