ever seen." Dan Callahan of Slant, awarding Daisy Kenyon three and a half stars out of four, called the film a "troubling and ambiguous portrayal of three real, unknowable characters (and actors) in constant flux", saying that the film "distilled [soap opera] to its real life essence, until what's left is nothing more than the ultimate mystery of art." Fernando Croce, giving the film four and a half stars out of five, called the film "a scrupulously cooled romance and a portrait of a postwar nation, but first and foremost... a fluid chart of thorny personal spaces brushing against each other." Chris Fujiwara, in a 2015 study of Preminger's films, draws attention to the fact that Daisy Kenyon is "possibly the first Hollywood film to allude to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II." Dan, partly in an attempt to impress Daisy, takes a pro-bono case for a Japanese American war veteran whose land was confiscated while he was away fighting. Dan is physically attacked in the course of the case and ultimately loses it. The original screenplay had a scene depicting a racist judge, but the film censor Joseph Breen did not allow it. (See Fujiwara, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, p. 97.)Daisy Kenyon'' holds a 100% rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.6/10, based on five reviews. Critics Roundup, a website that describes itself as "the first movie review aggregator to select reviews based on writing quality instead of popularity", also reports that 100% of 12 critics reviewed the film positively. References External links 1947 films 1947 romantic drama films 20th Century Fox films American black-and-white films American romantic drama films 1940s English-language films Films about adultery in the United States Films about veterans Films based on American novels Films directed by Otto Preminger Films scored by David Raksin Films set in Massachusetts Films set in New York City 1940s American films