[Chatterton] is absolutely defiant in that scene [with Kurt and the Baroness]. She doesn’t back down for a second even as her world is crumbling...

By far the most sensitive, restrained, and effective piece of direction Wyler ever turned in, the film achieves a measure of greatness through the dignity and depth of Huston's superb interpretation of the plainspoken Yankee.

Huston is superb as the plainspoken Midwestern businessman whose blissful world falls apart. The film remains the most emotionally compelling of Wyler's career.

Wyler proves an ideal facilitator, translating a couple’s innermost anxieties to a realm of frantic cinematic passion.