Built around the confession which a bigamist made to an investigator, the film shows an ordinary and very vulnerable man who is divided between two equally honest women (Ida Lupino gives an admirable performance in the role of Phyllis, while Joan Fontaine plays the first wife). He lied to both and is completely responsible. Yet, Ida Lupino does not oppress this weak and imprudent man with aggressive feminism. Her three characters encounter the complications of life and, in a certain sense, the woman’s desire for maternity takes on the appearance of a social destiny. The behavior study moves forward along with a delicate study of the emotions, of the relationship between sexes, which gives subtle resonance to a plot that in any case ends in a state of crisis. […] Ida Lupino is an exceptional figure in American cinema. On one hand there were few female directors prior to recent years and to the feminist movements. On the other, by passing behind the camera, Ida Lupino was the first to show women relating to men in a way that Hollywood never had before.

Jacques Siclier, in «Les Cahiers de le Cinémathèque», n. 28, 1978