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Text Box: “I found it a quietly understated, brilliantly done movie” Andrew Boyle BBC’s KALEIDOSCOPE PROGRAM Text Box: “It seems to me that Tony Maylam’s handling of The Riddle of the Sands is exemplary. As director and screenwriter (with John Bailey), Mr. Maylam catches to perfection the atmosphere of the 1901 story… I see modest, low-budget films off this quality as a solution to Britain’s film production problems. We can do with more craftsmen like Mr Maylam and stars like Mr. York and the delightful Miss Agutter.” Felix Barker EVENING NEWS “Tony Maylam, a debutant feature director, makes a fine job of the shipboard scenes and it is easy to imagine younger audiences loving it.” David Castell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Text Box: “Adapted from the novel by Erskine Childers, the tale is handsomely mounted by director Tony Maylam… The result is a ripping good yarn!” Ian Christie DAILY EXPRESS “Films with an authentic small boat interest are few and far between, so Rank’s just-released version of Erskine Childers’ classic small-boat yarn, The Riddle of the Sands, is likely to be high on the most non-cinema minded sailing family. One must say at the outset, that for accuracy in detail, this is probably the best sailing film ever made for the cinema. Malcolm McKeag YACHTS AND YACHTING Text Box: “Not for nothing is Erskine Childers’ novel regarded as the classic spy thriller. It is a fascinatingly plotted and superbly detailed story and probably the only thriller that has influenced the course of history. The tale concerns the battle of two gallant Edwardian Englishmen, in a small dogeared sailing craft, to uncover a master German plot to mount an offensive from the Frisian Islands against the unguarded eastern shores of Great Britain. Not immediately gripping, you might think. But director Tony Maylam, who co-scripted the film with John Bailey, director of photography Christopher Challis and The Rank Organisation, who put up the money, have achieved the impossible.” Margaret Hinxman DAILY MAIL