I WANT TO LIVE! (1958)
One of the most famous arguments against the death penalty ever to have been produced by the classic North American movie world, which earned its heroine, Susan Hayward, a Hollywood Academy Award for her part as a woman sentenced to the gas chamber. Robert Wise, author of films like Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), West Side Story (1961) or The Sound of Music (1965), directs the story of Barbara Graham, a regular frequenter of the underground and dicey bars. Two of her sidekicks kill an old lady. When they are arrested, convinced that she squealed on them, they point her out as the culprit. On trial, she tries to defend herself and avoid being convicted to death.
United States
Director: Robert Wise
Production: Walter Wanger / Figaro Films
Script: Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
Photography: Lionel Lindon
Music: Johnny Mandel
Edition: William Hornbeck
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau
Running time: 82 min.
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