The Woman I Stole

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The Woman I Stole
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Directed by Irving Cummings
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by Gene Havlick
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 30, 1933 (1933-06-30)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Woman I Stole is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Irving Cummings, starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray and Donald Cook. [1] It is based on the novel Tampico by Joseph Hergesheimer, with the setting shifted from Mexico to North Africa.

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Main cast

Critical reception

A contemporary review in Variety described the film as "[f]actory product, but factory product of a successful kind," and noted that the film's [i]ntent is melodramatic, but the treatment is particularly smooth and innocent of overdone heroics without sacrifice of action" and that the "acting is engaging in its simplicity." [2] Writing in The New York Times, movie critic Andre Sennwald described the film as "a melodrama of definite interest," "a beguiling adventure" with a narrative that is "told with color, speed and reticence," and having a conclusion in which "Fay Wray cool[s] her sinful heels on a distant pier while the two men who perilously avoided her net plan to celebrate their good fortune in a quart of brandy." [3]

References

  1. ↑ The Films of Fay Wray p.103-4
  2. ↑ "Variety (July 1933)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  3. ↑ Sennwald, Andre. "Skin Deep". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-12-14.

Bibliography

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