The Woman I Stole
Directed byIrving Cummings
Written by
Starring
CinematographyBenjamin H. Kline
Edited byGene Havlick
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
June 30, 1933
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.

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

Bibliography

  • Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. The Films of Fay Wray. McFarland, 2013.


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