""The Sydney Morning Herald"'s review of the film found that "[t]here is a grim problem facing the desperate member[s] of "The League of Frightened Men", but somehow this Columbia story, which brings that amiable detective, Nero Wolfe, to the screen again, fails to be convincing".In his book "The Detective in Hollywood", Jon Tuska wrote, "Unhappily, Lionel Stander's Archie in "The League of Frightened Men" is far too much of a bungler.