"Although Peter Lorre is occasionally able to give the film a frightening pathological significance, this is scarcely Dostoievsky's [sic] drama of a tortured brain drifting into madness with a terrible secret." (en) John Baxter, Von Sternberg (2010, University of Kentucky Press), p. 197. Gearchiveerd op 17 juni 2023.
"Although Peter Lorre is occasionally able to give the film a frightening pathological significance, this is scarcely Dostoievsky's [sic] drama of a tortured brain drifting into madness with a terrible secret." (en) John Baxter, Von Sternberg (2010, University of Kentucky Press), p. 197. Gearchiveerd op 17 juni 2023.