The soundtrack is treacle of the first water, the lockstep plot touches base with every tired cliché of the romantic road / marital reconciliation bodice -
ripper sub-genres of the adult contemporary celluloid refuse bin.
Indeed, The Man in Grey opened a new, highly exploitable
sub-genre of period bodice -
ripper melodramas that war - weary audiences whole - heartedly embraced, and not just in England; it also did respectable business on the far side of the Atlantic.It was also Crabtree's permanent ticket out of low - budget cinema and to work with some of the more prestigious filmmakers of the period, most notably Anthony Asquith on Fanny By Gaslight (1944).