"One of Hitchcock's darkest, strangest, and most obsessive films - the story of a pathological thief (played with icy precision by Tippi Hedren) and the rich, powerful, sexy young man (Sean Connery) who is perverse enough to fall in love with her. Of course, says Hitchcock, the man's a pervert, and the relationship is deeply sadistic. Certainly the whole film has a demonic intensity one cannot rationally explain - it is one of Hitchcock's most beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly personal movies." --John Russell Taylor, Take One