In a contemporary review for
The New York Times, critic
Bosley Crowther wrote: "Tom Lea's absorbing story of a bull-fighter's battle against fear, told with such flavor and ferocity in his popular novel, 'The Brave Bulls,' has been brought to the screen with all the richness and vitality of the book in Robert Rossen's brilliant translation, which arrived at the Rivoli yesterday. Here, at last, is a picture that captures in its raw and savage power the full fascination and repulsion of bull-fighting in the lives of men." == References ==