"One of the glossy programmers made for De Mille's company after he left Paramount, The Coming of Amos is a lively, much-larger-than-life melodrama, played very much tongue-in-cheek and with a whale of a trapped-in-a-water-filled-dungeon climax. Noah Beery has the time of his life as the villain, quite eclipsing Rod La Rocque and Jetta Goudal. Incidentally, the fine original print offers superb photography by Arthur Miller, and in the long shots of Beery's castle stronghold, some of the best examples extant of the art of the glass-shot." William K. Everson