The soul of the drama is the conflict that Delilah’s fair-skinned daughter feels between her personal black identity and the dominant white society around her. [Full review in Spanish]

The film remains a conscientious depiction of the bitter realities of race in America.

The race angle is treated with so obvious an attempt at tear-jerking that a good part of the Hurst appeal for increased... tolerance is lost in a welter of sentimentality.

It all sounds pretty trite, perhaps, and not a little like the tearjerking hokum I have already declared it isn't; but told as Director Stahl tells it, and as Miss Beavers and Miss Washington tell it, it is authentically dramatic.