I Want to Live!
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Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught, they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As revenge, they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in I Want to Live!:

Susan Hayward
Simon Oakland
Virginia Vincent
Theodore Bikel
Wesley Lau
Philip Coolidge

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Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught, they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As revenge, they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

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Not Coming to a Theater Near You - 9/10 by Matt BaileyDirector Wise is content to let Hayward take the film in her teeth from the moment she appears in the film and not let it go until she collapses in the gas chamber two hours later.
Seanax.com - 8/10 by Sean Axmaker... intelligent, adult, and unflinching, making a powerful case against capital punishment while delivering a riveting drama.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers - 6/10 by Steve CrumStunning drama that cries out for death penalty reform...with excellent Susan Hayward in lead.
User Review - 10/10 by Scott SA stirring drama centered around the true story of Barbara Graham, and enhanced by the Oscar-winning, Oscar-deserved performance Best Actress Susan Hayward for her riveting portrayal of Mrs. Graham. It is also the first film to talk about the death penalty. Robert Wise, the famous director who directed West Side Story and The Sound Of Music, directed this 1958 jazzed-up drama.
User Review - 10/10 by Nora PDrama, drama, drama! Susan is just brilliant in this, plus a great jazzy soundtrack to go along with Hayward's tough, bad girl who is dealt a really crappy blow. Anyone see the remake in the 70's with Lindsey Wagner??
User Review - 10/10 by CAROL HOh You Know that's right!! How long has it been since I have seen this movie. It was soo great. This is a classic tale of One woman's struggle to find freedom for a crime she swears she didn't commit. I was 8 when I first saw this, and I was a tad confused at first. But it became easier for me to get. Love it!!!
User Review - 10/10 by darryl chayward captured the 1958 best actress oscar for her star turn as barbara graham. graham was one of a few women that went to the gas chamber. and this film, as directed by robert wise, hints strongly that she was not guilty.
User Review - 10/10 by Linda TA True Story: Susan Hayward won an Academy Award for her performance classic I Want to Live! Hayward plays Barbara Graham, a "good-time girl" with a heart of gold and absolutely no instincts about when to drop a bad association. After bouncing in and out of the prison system for a series of petty crimes, Graham suddenly finds herself framed for murder and facing the death penalty. Hayward is simply marvelous, giving a wrenching, complex performance without ever becoming maudlin. Director Robert Wise ratchets the tension up to a nearly unbearable level, making Barbara's moments of hope as agonizing as those of her despair. The film is based on the story of the real-life Barbara Graham, taken from her letters and interviews with reporter Ed Montgomery. Montgomery himself appears as a character, and the film is surprisingly evenhanded about condemning his own role in Graham's conviction.
User Review - 10/10 by Brandan WI Want to Live was a film from it's inception was guaranteed to create controversy. There are all kinds of opinions about the death penalty and it's application all over the world. Barbara Graham's story, so fresh in the minds of the movie going public in 1958, was going to be a source of controversy.Did she actually kill the widow Monahan? The film cleverly sidesteps that issue in the screenplay. What exactly was Graham's role in the botched robbery? All the people who could actually tell us are dead. Should a woman be subject to capital punishment. Ethel Rosenberg went to the electric chair on less evidence than Graham and for a crime that was not a homicide.But all these questions aside, there is one absolute in this film. Susan Hayward gave a performance that must have been inspired by the angels. From the first half of the film dealing with her early life, the homicide she was charged with until the second half covering her sentence and her attempts to avoid the gas chamber, Hayward will keep you glued to your seat.I can't imagine another actress in this part. She of course was the Best Actress for 1958, but in my lifetime only Hillary Swank in her role in Boys Don't Cry was the Oscar ever conceded before the envelope was opened at the ceremony. EVERYONE knew that both Hayward and Swank were winners going in, that's how good both of them were.Susan Hayward was simply the best at her job. She had a number of great parts in Fifties and a few clinkers at the height of her career. But to get the Oscar for the part that was her signature role, made the ceremonies in 1959 a great occasion.She's got a good cast of supporting players in I Want to Live, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau, Phillip Coolidge. But it is Hayward's film totally.A part like Barbara Graham given to an actress like Susan Hayward only comes along once or twice in a lifetime. Don't miss this one, however you feel about capital punishment.
User Review - 10/10 by Madison NEven though this film was in black and white, it was moving and emotionally vibrant as any color film I have ever seen. I agree with the critics that Hayward's acting was spectacular, though she did seem a bit too old and at times too histrionic for her role.

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