I Want to Live!

(1958)

Biography / Crime / Drama

120 minutes

Directed by Robert Wise

Cast:

Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham

Simon Oakland as Ed Montgomery

Virginia Vincent as Peg

Theodore Bikel as Carl G.G. Palmberg

Wesley Lau as Henry L. Graham

Philip Coolidge as Emmett Perkins

Lou Krugman as Jack Santo

James Philbrook as Bruce King

Bartlett Robinson as District Attorney Milton

Gage Clarke as Attorney Richard G. Tibrow

Joe De Santis as Al Matthews

John Marley as Father Devers

Raymond Bailey as San Quentin Warden

Alice Backes as Barbara

Gertrude Flynn as San Quentin Matron

Russell Thorson as San Quentin Sgt.

Dabbs Greer as San Quentin Capt.

Stafford Repp as Police Sgt.

Gavin MacLeod as Police Lt.

Wendell Holmes as Detective

Barbara Graham is a woman with questionable values and has gone to jail for minor crimes. An older woman is murdered by two men she knows and they believe she told the police on them. In retribution, they tell the police she was the one who killed the woman.   Loosely based on the true story of Barbara Graham.

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