| The Woman I Stole | |
| Director: | Irving Cummings |
| Cinematography: | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Editing: | Gene Havlick |
| Studio: | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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]