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I want to live!

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Performers

Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau, Philip Coolidge, Lou Krugman, James Philbrook, Gage Clark, John Marley, Marion Marshall.

Publication Information

[Beverly Hills, CA] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2015]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (121 minutes) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts to expose the truth and save her life against all odds.

Notes

Title from disc surface.

Based on newspaper articles by Ed Montgomery, and the letters of Barbara Graham.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

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