In his review appearing in Film-Kurier, Nr. 298, December 17th 1927, Hans Feld writes: "A Hernfeldery (edit.: referring to co-authors' surname) about an inheritance that throws the entire family into a heightened state of excitement. Everything is based on the small legal misunder-standing that an heir must cover any debts that the deceased has left, even above and beyond the amount of the inheritance.

Paul Morgan leads the film with a sufficiently lengthy title intro-duction in which he warns that, in this movie, there is no love story, violence or sensation-alism, a promise which is kept.

Ilka Grüning and Erika Glässner play the only female roles. But, perhaps to make up for this, the viewer encounters all the more sons of Israel speaking, complaining, hitting, getting hit and speaking again and again, until a good uncle from Bentschen appears on the scene and repairs the damage.

Hans Steinhoff, using the resources available to him and which probably were limited, has made a neat film with a number of really good laughs. Moviegoers, except perhaps the most inveterate antisemites, will find this a welcome change from films about Rhein, operetta and Heidelberg."