Betty Box said she was "very surprised Rank let me do it... because they were very politically conservative as an organisation. Perhaps they liked the Peter Finch character being so corrupt because, after all, he was left-wing. I must say I liked it very much...
Betty Box expressed surprise at being allowed to participate in the project due to Rank's conservative political leanings, and suggested that they might have been drawn to the portrayal of Peter Finch's character as corrupt because he was left-leaning.