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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- (Doris Day) is quietly touching in Young Man With a Horn as a singer pining for Kirk Douglas’ tortured trumpeter.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineYoung Man With A Horn suffers from excessive melodrama, but boasts several fine performances and plenty of enjoyable jazz.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAs played by Douglas, he is a man with a free flow from his spirit through the instrument. It's instinctive. He becomes involved with two women, and this is where the movie could become hokey, but it doesn't. [12 Jun 2005]
- If you have a sneaking affection for 1950-ish, made-to-measure movies, there are pleasures to be found in Young Man With a Horn.
- 60Time OutTime OutThe sound-track bops along nicely with jazz-tinged standards.
- 50Slant MagazineJeremiah KippSlant MagazineJeremiah KippThe non-musical performances are shallow: Douglas is forceful but one-note, Day is as square and wholesome as a glass of milk, and Bacall purrs along in the same faux-bad girl performance she’s given for the past 60 years. But I suppose that’s fitting for a morality play this black and white, where wild jazz, liquor, and loose women cause the downfall of man.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)There's one, and only one, good reason to rent this movie - the music. [08 Sep 1990]