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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: You've got to hand it to Alfred Hitchcock: when he sows the fearful seeds of mistrust in one of his motion pictures he can raise more goose pimples to the square inch of a customer's flesh than any other director of thrillers in Hollywood. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: Peels back the welcoming warmth and sincere innocence of small-town life to reveal the gullibility and the naivete underneath; it's a fiction about the perpetuation of fictions. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Read more
TIME Magazine: A superb film. Read more