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Variety Staff, Variety: An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The last of Preminger's overblown adaptations of best-sellers, this may have a lot more juice than sustenance, but at least Preminger keeps the juices flowing. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown is a frustrating case, not good but not particularly bad, with a smokescreen of controversy surrounding it and obscuring its real faults. Read more
TIME Magazine: Hurry Sundown is a gigantic masquerade in which the participants put on two things: a Southern accent and the audience. Read more