"Clyde Jeavons of "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote, "Now and again, thanks the choice of an episodic style and the use of an engaging crop of guest stars in cameo roles, there are glimpses of what might have been; moments when the film looks as if it might take off like "Butch Cassidy" or say something meaningful like "Little Big Man" ...But these are small oases in a large desert, and no matter how dismissive John Huston may choose to be about his film, it has the air of an elaborate mistake—overblown, tedious and over-emphatic."