Reception
Bosley Crowther generally panned the film and commented in the New York Times of February 29, 1956: "The script was obviously written to bring and Mr. Hudson, who made a popular twosome in the Magnificent Obsession, together again. Solid and sensible drama plainly had to give way to outright emotional bulldozing and a paving of easy clichés."
Many critics view the film as a social critique of the conformity obsessed 1950s.
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