the film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane wrote: "Gilling shows in all of them a capacity for establishing the premises of his plots economically and evocatively, for developing them with clarity and speed, for giving competent players a chance to invest their characters with a feeling and detail that go beyond stereotype, and for making deft use of limited locations and settings".

Starting in 1956, Gilling directed and wrote several films for Albert R. Broccoli