Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times said, " After watching an endless succession of courtroom melodramas that have more or less transgressed the bounds of human reason and the rules of advocacy, it is cheering and fascinating to see one that hews magnificently to a line of dramatic but reasonable behavior and proper procedure in a court.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, also liked it, writing, " Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely male cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer ... Quite as interesting as the drama, which smacks of being contrived, are the types of masculine creatures paraded in this film.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film, the acting, and Hitchcock's direction, and wrote, " With all the skill in presentation for which both gentlemen are famed, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock have put upon the screen a slick piece of static entertainment in their garrulous The Paradine Case ... Gregory Peck is impressively impassioned as the famous young London barrister who lets his heart, cruelly captured by his client, rule his head.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for the New York Times, observed, " As honest and humble as is the effort to make the viewer sense a woman's baffled love for a shifty and mixed-up fellow in Baby, the Rain Must Fall, there is a major and totally neglected weakness in this film from a Horton Foote play that troubles one's mind throughout the picture and leaves one sadly let-down at the end.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lauded the film and its message in his review.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times at the time, liked the film and especially Robert Montgomery's direction, and wrote, "... Mr. Montgomery, as director and star of this story, has contrived to make it look shockingly literal and keep it moving at an unrelenting pace.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a highly positive review, and wrote, " Yet the total effect of the picture is a sense of real experience, achieved as much by the performance as by the writing and direction.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, panned the film, especially the screenplay and direction of the drama, and wrote, " Since Pat O ' Brien's noggin suffers a blow which blacks out his memory as the story starts, there probably wouldn't be much sense taking the authors to task for the fantastic events which ensue ... This explosive and promising action sets in motion a chain of circumstances which, no doubt, must have baffled the script writers, too, for they never do give it a logical explanation ... All of the aforementioned principals turn in competent performances, and the mystery is how they managed to get through the picture without becoming hopelessly confused.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, was caustic about the casting and the adaption of Cain's novel, and wrote, "... Rhonda Fleming and a laughably kittenish Arlene Dahl, are a couple of on-the-make sisters, and the fellow, played by John Payne, is an on-the-make big-time gangster.

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