Derek Smith über The 13th Letter. „An inferior, yet worthy remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Raven, The 13th Letter may take many of the prior's original ideas but Preminger adds a few of his own touches to make it much more of a compliment than a ripoff. […] Of course Preminger's film still takes many of the same twists and turns as The Raven, but it still feels like a different film – more than simply an Americanized foreign film.“
