Reception
In a December 1970 review, Time magazine summarized the film's main characters:
- "Tuesday Weld is an understandably desirable love object, a genuine Lolita, but she can make little sense of her rather muddy character"
- "Ralph Meeker, as the ruthless moonshiner, is all sinister smiles and barely repressed violence"
- "[Gregory) Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff's vulnerability but never his passion"
According to TV Guide, "he one reason to watch is the astonishing, unsung Weld, the modern Louise Brooks, who can suggest amorality, skewed innocence and ageless sensuality—she played nymphets through her thirties with infinite ease—that makes Bardot pale."
In an interview published in October 2009, Madison Jones, the author upon whose novel the film's screenplay was based, said Peck "didn’t really fit the role.... He didn’t really fit any role unless he is playing himself"; across to Jones, "Peck himself said there was a good movie lying on the cutting room floor."
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