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I Want To Live

I Want To Live

Suitable For 15 Years And Over.Info Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Phillip Coolidge

Director: Robert Wise

Summary: A former prostitute becomes involved with two hustlers and eventually ends up in the gas chamber.

The electrifying Oscar-winning performance by Susan Hayward forms the foundation for the film noir classic I WANT TO LIVE! Hayward plays Barbara Graham, the real-life occasional prostitute and full-time con artist and perjurer who was charged with a murder she claimed she didn't commit and became the first woman to be executed in the state of California. Based on news articles by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery and letters from the actual Barbara Graham, the film chronicles the year or so before the murder of a wealthy widow and shows Graham's involvement with con artists Emmett Perkins (Philip Coolidge) and Jack Santo (Lou Krugman), who are also charged with the crime. After trying to break free of the underworld by marrying drug addict Henry Graham (Wesley Lau) and having a child with him, the spunky, good-natured but desperate Barbara leaves Henry and goes back to setting up gambling rings and ripping people off. It's not long before she and her partners, Emmett and Jack, are arrested for murder, though the film cleverly never shows the actual crime. What follows is a harrowing tale with Graham angrily, then desperately, proclaiming her innocence as she is put through the justice system. With an amazing jazz score by Johnny Mandel and director Robert Wise's quick pacing and frenetic vignettes, I WANT TO LIVE! is a gripping, tense melodrama.

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Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Year: 1958
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Runtime: 116 minutes
Certification: Suitable For 15 Years And Over.
Catalogue Number: 10001057
Keywords: Live, General, Want, I, Drama
Genre: Drama

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