"Frankly this is the kind of film that we play occasionally because, like Everest, it is there. But while Everest is available to all, Doctors' Wives isn't, and though an unimportant film, any film directed by Frank Borzage, and graced by such a lovely performance from Joan Bennett, warrants at least one outing. Fox obviously felt Warner Baxter ideally suited to the role of dashing ladies' man and idealistic doctor, since he was to be recast in those roles endlessly throughout the '30s. More interesting here, however, is Victor Varconi, performing peculiar and unspecified experiments on Frankensteinian equipment some months before the release of that film. It is also never (medically) explained how a man suffering from radium poisoning can have his life saved, if only temporarily, by chest surgery! However, the film is slick, well photographed by Arthur Edeson (who coincidentally also did Frankenstein) and enjoyable in its own ultra-soap-opera way. Certainly it is too brisk and absurd to be boring, and Joan Bennett, apart from being lovely to look at, gives a performance that almost seems out of place in such a basically silly film." William K. Everson