"Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd`s calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel." - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary of Film, " 1975)
- Alan LaddUnder the Thomson management, which lasted until 1874, the record of the Pennsylvania Railroad was one of progress in every sense of the word.
- John Moody