It is an entrancing picture, wholesome and beautiful, deliberate but compelling, a feat of motion picture art which has never been equaled and one which itself will enthrall persons time and again.
– Mordaunt Hall,
New York Times,
6 Dec 2014
fresh:
Walsh's dynamism is evident in every frame of this deftly Americanized fantasy, beautifully designed by William Cameron Menzies.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
16 Oct 2007
fresh:
Korda's version of 1940 has the quirks and the luscious colour, but this one has the electric energy.
– Geoff Brown,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
It is like reading the Arabian Nights at one sitting, with only six minutes allowed to stretch the limbs and get the contrast of a workaday world.