— So you’re quite sure of your feelings? I mean, you know, sometimes people get… carried away, come to their senses again with a jolt.
— I wanna marry your daughter.
— I wish you’d stop calling her my daughter. She happens to be my wife.

Far superior to The Big Steal in every way, the vastly underrated Where Danger Lives offers Mitchum a far more interesting script, one that’s consistently inventive and genuinely surprising. — Stuart Galbraith IV

Where Danger Lives appropriates a popular film noir tale but injects it with some new life, thanks in large part to Farrow’s intelligent direction, a cleverer than average script and a full lineup of actors and actresses who bring their best stuff. — Edgar Chaput