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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Preminger doesn't direct movies as much as he makes frontal assaults on them. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The style hesitates between no-stops melodrama and glacial reserve without really finding a meaningful perspective on the action. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It succeeds, among other things, in making human entertainment out of a rather unlikely story. Read more