"Although one of the longest and biggest Tom Mix vehicles, and certainly one of the most elaborate in terms of sets and decor--and also one of the best received by critics--Dick Turpin was one of the least successful Mix films at the box office.... I suppose at the time the near doubling of the normal length meant cutting the customary Mix speed in half.... Today, however, while admittedly a bit protracted and slow-moving in spots, Dick Turpin is a vastly entertaining semi-western swashbuckler, carefully made, and with the big action sequences done in the typical tongue-in-cheek Mix manner. However, since the Turpin story is so well known, and even allowing for the fact that history has given him as great a whitewash job as it gave Jesse James, the totally false happy ending (although understandable for a Mix vehicle) strikes as discordant a note as the happy ending to Vidor's Billy the Kid." William K. Everson