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. The plot follows the novel, which ran initially in "The Saturday Evening Post". A group of ten men is threatened by one of their number, and murders begin. Eduardo Ciannelli is the logical suspect, since he was crippled in a hazing while the men were all in college. [...] The film was in no way the equal of its predecessor."