The motion picture surpasses the play, The Children's Hour. Bonita Granville proves that a child can act a child better than can an adult, even though Florence McGee was the adult.

While it will take a lot of Shirley Temple to take away the taste of Mary Tilford, little Miss [Bonita] Granville's performance isn't a thing to be missed.

Despite limitations imposed by the Production Code (lesbianism!), this first version of Hellman's play is more powerful than the 1961 remake, also directed by William Wyler.

Overheated but well-acted adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour.