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<i>The Woman I Stole</i>

The Woman I Stole

1933 film by Irving Cummings

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. [1]
    The Films of Fay Wray p.103-4
  2. [2]
    "Variety (July 1933)". Internet Archive. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  3. [3]
    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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