Journey into Ryan - 26
"Ryan's role as the anti-Semitic G.I. in 'Crossfire' is an extra-ordinary performance; full in terms of the character he was playing, of concealment, with a thin coating of restless charm covering a cancerous malignancy that threatened to break out and shatter everything."
John Cutts, Films and Filming
"the scariest performance of the season"

Time

"Robert Ryan is frighteningly real"

N.Y. Times