The Woman I Stole
{{short description|1933 film by Irving Cummings}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Woman I Stole
| image = The Woman I Stole.jpg
| caption =
| director = Irving Cummings
| producer =
| writer = {{ubl|Joseph Hergesheimer (novel)|Jo Swerling}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Jack Holt|Fay Wray|Donald Cook}}
| music =
| cinematography = Benjamin H. Kline
| editing = Gene Havlick
| studio = Columbia Pictures
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1933|06|30}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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The Woman I Stole is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Irving Cummings, starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray and Donald Cook.The Films of Fay Wray p.103-4 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."{{cite web |title=Variety (July 1933) |url=https://archive.org/details/variety111-1933-07/page/n14/mode/1up?view=theater |website=Internet Archive |access-date=2022-12-14}} 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."{{cite web |last1=Sennwald |first1=Andre |title=Skin Deep |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/06/28/archives/skin-deep.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=2022-12-14}}
References
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Bibliography
- Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. The Films of Fay Wray. McFarland, 2013.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0024783}}
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Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American adventure films
Category:Films directed by Irving Cummings
Category:Films with screenplays by Jo Swerling
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language adventure films
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