The Woman I Stole

1933 film by Irving Cummings

Joseph Hergesheimer (novel)
Jo Swerling

Starring

Jack Holt
Fay Wray
Donald Cook

CinematographyBenjamin H. KlineEdited byGene Havlick

Production
company

Columbia Pictures

Distributed byColumbia Pictures

Release date

June 30, 1933

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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

Jack Holt as Jim Bradler
Fay Wray as Vida Carew
Donald Cook as Corew
Noah Beery Sr. as Gen. Rayon
Raquel Torres as Teresita
Edwin Maxwell as Lentz
Charles A. Browne as Deleker

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

^ The Films of Fay Wray p.103-4
^ "Variety (July 1933)". Internet Archive. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
^ 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.

External links

The Woman I Stole at IMDb

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