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.

The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama.

An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.

So low has the South fallen that Otto Preminger hasn't even bothered to get the accents straight.