I Want to Live!

1958 · directed by Robert Wise

Rating: 81/100
Hit: yes

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

I Want to Live! (1958), directed by Robert Wise, rates 81/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

Susan Hayward
Simon Oakland
Virginia Vincent
Theodore Bikel
Wesley Lau
Philip Coolidge
Lou Krugman
James Philbrook
Bartlett Robinson
Gage Clarke

Crew

Lionel Lindon — Director of Photography
William Hornbeck — Editor
Johnny Mandel — Original Music Composer
Don Mankiewicz — Screenplay
Nelson Gidding — Screenplay
Ed Montgomery — Writer

More from Robert Wise

West Side Story (1961) — 96/100 · hit
The Sound of Music (1965) — 84/100 · hit
Executive Suite (1954) — 83/100 · hit
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) — 81/100 · hit
The Set-Up (1949) — 79/100
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) — 79/100

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