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Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, criticized the film: " Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support.

... Perhaps there will be those in the audience who will likewise be terrified by the villain's darkly menacing warnings and by Mr. Hitchcock's sleekly melodramatic tricks.

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But, for all that, his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.

" Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was " at his best " and that the film " makes superior suspense entertainment ," but called the story " unsatisfactory.