I Want to Live

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Call Number: DVD Film-Noir I
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Based on a newspaper article by Edward Montgomery and the letters of Barbara Graham.
Includes the original theatrical trailer.
Susan Hayward (Barbara Graham), Simon Oakland (Ed Montgomery), Virginia Vincent (Peg), Theodore Bikel (Carl Palmberg), Wesley Lau (Henry Graham), Philip Coolidge, Lou Krugman, James Philbrook, Gage Clark, John Marley, Marion Marshall.
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz.
DVD; mono., Dolby digital; widescreen format.

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Academy Award Winner submitted by kencza on July 12, 2022, 9:13am Susan Hayward won the award for her performance in this drama based on the real life of Barbara Graham. Her portrayal of a "bad" girl was unique even in noir films at the time. Unlike the usual femme fatale popular at the time she had a darker lifestyle and harder edge than most. It is hard not to empathize with her suffering and execution.