"Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman is Emma and Horatio biographically and Viv and Larry iconographically. The vulgar, reactionary personalities of the great Admiral Horatio Nelson and the tainted Lady Hamilton as transformed through the twinkling, sensual complicity of Olivier and Leigh so seized the imagination of Winston Churchill that he declared the film the greatest he had ever seen. Olivier, even under an eye patch and otherwise ravaged face, smiles, slowly curls his lips, and awkwardly creases his cheeks in acknowledging for all time the precious privilege of sharing the marvelously grown-up sense of humor of such a beautiful woman as Leigh. The legendary but far from mythical Larry and Viv bring magical passion to the tattered pageantry of a well-mounted film set to a lushly imperial score by Miklos Rozsa." Andrew Sarris, Tom Allen, Village Voice