“[I]t’s still pleasant company. […] Buchman’s screenplay comes across as rather tired […], and Frank LLoyd’s merely okay direction doesn’t help matters.” Craig Butler: The Howards of Virginia bei AllMovie, abgerufen am 8. Juli 2023 (englisch).
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“As a record of social progression, this film is a master work. […] Martha Scott is excellent […]. The only disappointment – and it is a major one – is Cary Grant as Matt. […] But regardless of that and regardless of the film’s two-hour running time, it is one of the best historical pictures to date.”Bosley Crowther: “The Howards of Virginia,” a Fine Historical Drama, at Music Hall. In: The New York Times, 27. September 1940.
