Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 29, 1957

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The technique is a daring one, and Rose handles it expertly—with a strong assist from Director Sidney Lumet. His actors all perform with steady credibility and a good sense of the other fellow's part, which builds the believable individuals into a believable group. And in the heat of the struggle, as the secret motives of the men emerge, the onlooker learns better than he could from any law-school course that the law is no better than the people who enforce it, and that the people who enforce it are all too human.