sentences:  Even the friendlier ones single out for praise elements that seem, from today's perspective, to be marginal virtues and incidental pleasures – the 'vitality' of the supporting performances (Dilys Powell in "The Sunday Times"), the slickness with which the car sequences are put together (Isobel Quibley in "The Spectator")".Additional reasons for the mixed response initially were that Hitchcock fans were not pleased with his departure from the romantic-thriller territory of earlier films, and that the mystery was solved with one-third of the film left to go.Orson Welles disliked the film, telling his friend, director Henry Jaglom, that the movie was "worse" than "Rear Window", another film that Welles disliked.