I want to live!

Resource Information

The work I want to live! represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

I want to live!

Statement of responsibility

Figaro, Inc. presents ; screenplay by Nelson Gidding and Don M. Mankiewicz ; producer, Walter Wanger ; director, Robert Wise

Title variation

I want to live

Contributor

• Clarke, Gage, 1900-1964
• Lindon, Lionel
• Bikel, Theodore
• Mandel, Johnny
• Mankiewicz, Don M., 1922-2015
• Lau, Wesley, 1921-1984
• Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955
• Marley, John, 1907-1984
• Kino Lorber, Inc
• Marshall, Marion
• Figaro Incorporatied
• Montgomery, Edward S.
• Coolidge, Philip, 1908-1967
• Oakland, Simon
• Philbrook, James, 1924-1982
• Krugman, Lou
• Hornbeck, William, 1901-1983
• Vincent, Virginia, 1918-2013
• Wise, Robert, 1914-2005
• Gidding, Nelson
• Hayward, Susan, 1917-1975

Actor

• Hayward, Susan, 1917-1975
• Vincent, Virginia, 1918-2013
• Philbrook, James, 1924-1982
• Oakland, Simon
• Marshall, Marion
• Marley, John, 1907-1984
• Bikel, Theodore
• Lau, Wesley, 1921-1984
• Clarke, Gage, 1900-1964
• Krugman, Lou
• Coolidge, Philip, 1908-1967

Author

• Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955
• Montgomery, Edward S.

Director of photography

• Lindon, Lionel

Editor of moving image work

• Hornbeck, William, 1901-1983

Film director

• Wise, Robert, 1914-2005

Production company

• Figaro Incorporatied

Publisher

• Kino Lorber, Inc

Screenwriter

• Mankiewicz, Don M., 1922-2015
• Gidding, Nelson

Subject

• False imprisonment -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955 -- Drama
• Trials (Murder) -- United States -- Drama
• Biographical films
• Crime films
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Drama
• Death row inmates -- United States -- Drama
• Executions and executioners -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Crime films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Drama
• Biographical films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

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

Member of

• KL studio classics

Awards note

Academy Awards, 1958: Best actress (Susan Hayward).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Photography, Lionel Lindon ; editor, William Hornbeck ; music, John Mandel

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

In English with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.I15 2015

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

121

Series statement

KL Studio Classics

Technique

live action