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I Want to Live!

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I Want to Live!
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NR,2hrs 0min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1958
Director:
Robert Wise
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent  ...more
Synopsis: Grim, almost unbearably intense, I Want To Live is the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict. The product of a broken home, Graham works as a shill, luring gullible men into crooked card games. She attempts to go straight, marries the wrong man, and has a baby. When her life falls apart, she returns to her former profession and is involved in a murder. Despite her claims of innocence, she is convicted and executed. Robert Wise ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
I Want to Live! is one of the screen's most powerful films. While Susan Hayward was often inclined to accept melodramatic scripts, nothing in her career tops her Oscar-winning performance as prostitute and con artist Barbara Graham, struggling to avoid execution in California's gas chamber. Graham's real-life struggle was well-known to the audiences of 1958. In lesser hands, a film of this sort could ... Full Review
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Susan Hayward
Barbara Graham
Simon Oakland
Ed Montgomery
Virginia Vincent
Peg
Theodore Bikel
Carl Palmberg
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