"Like Corridor of Mirrors (see January 16), Latin Quarter is a stylish and individual film that aims at creating a sense of unease rather than terror. Both are macabre without being horrific. Vernon Sewell, who wrote and directed, was in a very loose sense Britain's own Edgar Ulmer. He specialized in macabre thrillers, and seemed to do some of his most interesting work on miniscule budgets. Latin Quarter is probably his best film.... Budget shortcomings are quite evident, yet Sewell (like Ulmer) uses ingenuity to overcome them. The tricky opening shot (a slow pan over the rooftops of Paris) is typical. The use of a backdrop is never in question, yet it's an atmospherically pleasing shot and the segue into a full-scale set is neatly done. Latin Quarter has many uncomfortably chilling moments, and of course was more effective in 1945 when horror, especially in British film, was not such a stock commodity." William K. Everson