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1958

I Want to Live!

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

Credits

Director

Robert Wise

Producer

Walter Wanger

Writers

Nelson Gidding , Don Mankiewicz , Ed Montgomery

Cinematographer

Lionel Lindon

Editor

William Hornbeck

Composer

Johnny Mandel

Casting

Lynn Stalmaster

Cast

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

Studios

United Artists , Figaro Incorporated Production

Genres

Drama Crime

External

IMDb Amazon

Posters

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I Want to Live! (1958) movie poster
I Want to Live! (1958) movie poster
I Want to Live! (1958) movie poster
I Want to Live! (1958) movie poster
I Want to Live! (1958) movie poster

Awards

2 wins, 11 nominations
Won Best Actress Susan Hayward 1959
Won Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Susan Hayward 1959
Nom Best Motion Picture - Drama I Want To Live! 1959
Nom Best Original Screenplay Nelson Gidding I Want to Live! 1959
Nom Best Director Robert Wise 1959
Nom Best Director Robert Wise 1959
Nom Best Adapted Screenplay Don Mankiewicz 1959
Nom Best Adapted Screenplay Nelson Gidding 1959
Nom Best Cinematography (Black and White) Lionel Lindon 1959
Nom Best Film Editing William Hornbeck 1959
Nom Best Sound Mixing Gordon E. Sawyer 1959

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