“It is curious how incest, impotence, nymphomania, religious mania and real estate speculation can be so dull.”
Richard Findlater, Time and Tide
“Lillian Hellman has chosen to write on a Tennessee Williams theme in an Agatha Christie style.”
Times (London)
“Scoundrel Time is historically a fraud, artistically a put-up job, and emotionally packed with meanness.”
Dwight MacDonald, Esquire
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.