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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis is a fast-paced movie with a bright and witty script and plenty of scary adventures which Durbin cleverly manages to survive.
- 70Time OutTime OutLight, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun.
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThis 1945 picture is much more felicitous than Christmas Holiday, the bizarre film noir that followed, though not nearly as memorable.
- 40The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt's an empty and careless little fable, intended to be a mystery farce, about the wholly incredible mix-up of a debutante in a murder plot.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelUgh. A murder mystery that starts from a Leslie Charteris story but never gets anyplace you'd want to go to.