While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their young daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Vintage Hitchcock, with sheer wit and verve masking an implausible plot.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Directed with a fascinating staccato violence by Alfred Hitchcock, it is the swiftest screen melodrama this column can recall.
– Andre Sennwald,
New York Times,
8 Aug 2006
fresh:
An unusually fine dramatic story handled excellently from a production standpoint.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
rotten:
Although the film is fast and consistently clever, it is more deeply flawed than any other Hitchcock film of the period, failing to find a thematic connection between its imaginative set pieces.