According to a recent re-evaluation by Andrew Sarris, Take Me To Town “is so gracefully directed that it transcends its sentimental not-so-wild-West material with a stylistic meditation on theatre and reality worthy of Renoir. Ann Sheridan is warm and womanly in her post-oomph-girl period, and Sterling Hayden is strong, upright, and manly. Even the cutesy kids in the found family are bearable.”