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With an ad campaign that promised far more than it could deliver, this stage-bound melodrama suffered from having been produced by Sam Efrus, a Poverty Row entrepreneur who never met a corner he wouldn't cut. Thus, both the shipwreck and the concluding car chase, inserted to add some much-needed production value, are of the grainy, non-matching stock footage kind so favored by companies like Peerless. House of Danger is actually not bad, it's just too reminiscent of a great many early sound thrillers from rival companies such as Monogram, Tiffany-Stahl, and Sono Art-World Wide. Director Charles Hutchison was a silent era serial star and not too adept at character delineation, but, happily, the veteran cast had done this sort of thing many times before and could pretty much take care of itself. Producer Efrus, incidentally, suffered the tort of having his name misspelled "Ferus" in the onscreen credits.