Editing I Want to Live!

{{Short description|1958 film noir by Robert Wise}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = I Want to Live!
| image          = I Want to Live! (1958) master poster art.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Robert Wise]]
| producer       = [[Walter Wanger]]
| screenplay     = [[Nelson Gidding]]<br />[[Don Mankiewicz]]
| based_on       = {{based on|Articles and letters|[[Edward S. Montgomery|Edward Montgomery]] and [[Barbara Graham]]}}
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Susan Hayward]]
* [[Simon Oakland]]
* [[Virginia Vincent]]
* [[Theodore Bikel]]
* [[Wesley Lau]]
}}
| music          = [[Johnny Mandel]]
| cinematography = [[Lionel Lindon]]
| editing        = [[William Hornbeck]]
| studio         = Figaro, Inc.
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1958|10|29|ref1={{sfn|Bernstein|2000|p=446}}}}
| runtime        = 120 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.4 million{{sfn|Bernstein|2000|p=446}} 
| gross          = $3.5 million{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=123}}—$5.6 million{{sfn|Bernstein|2000|p=446}} 
}}

'''''I Want to Live!''''' is a 1958 American [[independent film|independent]]<ref name="screeningamericanindiefilm">[https://books.google.com/books?id=F868EAAAQBAJ Screening American Independent Film - Google Books]</ref> [[Biographical film|biographical]] film noir [[drama]] film directed by [[Robert Wise]], and starring [[Susan Hayward]], [[Simon Oakland]], [[Virginia Vincent]], and [[Theodore Bikel]]. It follows the life of [[Barbara Graham]], a [[prostitution|prostitute]] and habitual criminal, who is convicted of murder and faces [[capital punishment]]. The screenplay, written by [[Nelson Gidding]] and [[Don Mankiewicz]], was adapted from personal letters written by Graham, in addition to newspaper articles written by [[1951 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning journalist [[Edward S. Montgomery|Ed Montgomery]] in the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''. The film presents a highly fictionalized version of the case, indicating the possibility that Graham may have been innocent.

Released in late 1958, ''I Want to Live!'' was a commercial and critical success, garnering favorable reviews from critics for Hayward's performance, as well as the film's realistic depiction of capital punishment. The film earned a total of six [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations, with Hayward winning a [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress Oscar]] at the [[31st Academy Awards]] as well as the [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] in the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|same category]].

==Plot==
In 1950 [[San Francisco]], petty criminal and [[prostitution|prostitute]] [[Barbara Graham]] faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native [[San Diego]], but is soon charged with [[perjury]] after she provides two criminal friends a false [[alibi]]. She subsequently returns to prostitution and other criminal activities to make a living and begins working for thief Emmett Perkins by luring men to his gambling parlor. Barbara manages to earn a significant amount of money, and quits working for Emmett to marry Hank, her third husband. The couple have a son, Bobby, but their marriage is in turmoil because of Hank's heroin addiction and physical abuse.

Barbara forces Hank to leave, but she is soon evicted from her apartment. Desperate, she leaves Bobby in the care of her mother and returns to working for Emmett, who is now associated with thugs John Santo and Bruce King. Police crack down on the operation and Barbara surrenders. During the interrogation, she is stunned when authorities accuse her of helping Perkins and Santo murder Mabel Monohan, an elderly [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] woman. Barbara insists that she was home with her husband and son on the night of the murder but is indicted by a grand jury. Barbara's childhood friend Peg visits her in jail and agrees to help care for Bobby.

Attorney Richard Tibrow is assigned to Barbara's case and informs her that her alibi is meaningless unless Hank can corroborate it. Barbara furtively concocts a phony alibi with Ben Miranda, supposedly a friend of a fellow prisoner. At the trial, it is revealed that Ben is a police officer who recorded her confession with a hidden microphone during their meeting. Barbara insists that she sought the false alibi only to avoid the [[capital punishment|death penalty]], and that her admission is false. She is ultimately convicted, along with Emmett and John, and all three are sentenced to death.

Tibrow withdraws from Barbara's case and is replaced by Al Matthews. In prison, Barbara is relentlessly defiant, refusing to wear her uniform and demanding a radio. Matthews has psychologist Carl Palmberg evaluate Barbara, hoping to ultimately administer a lie detection test. After visiting with her, Carl states that while Barbara appears to be [[amorality|amoral]], she is averse to violence. He also observes that she is left-handed, and the murder was committed by a right-handed person. Journalist [[Edward S. Montgomery|Edward Montgomery]], who has covered Barbara's case all along, questions her conviction and publishes a sympathetic series of articles describing her troubled life. As her execution date draws near, Barbara grows increasingly anxious. A [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] [[Stay of execution|stay]] gives her hope that her sentence may be commuted, but it is overturned when Carl dies unexpectedly of heart disease. Al's petition for a retrial is denied, and Barbara's execution date is set.

The day before her execution, a demoralized Barbara is transferred to [[San Quentin State Prison|San Quentin Prison]], where she meets with a priest. That evening, she is angered to hear that multiple couples are seeking to adopt her son. She stays awake all night, wistfully recounting to a prison nurse her marriage with Hank. In the morning, 45 minutes before Barbara's scheduled execution, [[Governor of California|California governor]] [[Goodwin J. Knight]] declares a stay, but her attorney Al's [[writ]] is invalidated and the execution is ordered to proceed. Barbara is taken to the [[gas chamber]], but the execution is again halted when Al's amended writ is declared.

The uncertainty and desperation surrounding her fate reduces Barbara to hysterics. She is returned to her cell, where she and the prison staff wait several minutes for a response to Al's writ. They are informed that it has again been rejected and that Barbara's execution is to proceed immediately. Before entering the gas chamber, Barbara demands a mask, as she does not want to see the faces of the witnesses to what she regards as her murder. She is strapped to the chair and executed with [[Hydrogen cyanide|cyanide gas]]. After Barbara is pronounced dead, a despondent Edward Montgomery leaves the prison. On his way out, he is met by Al, who gives him a note from Barbara thanking him for his efforts to help her.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing}}
* [[Susan Hayward]] as [[Barbara Graham]]
* [[Simon Oakland]] as [[Edward S. Montgomery|Edward S. "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 John R. "Jack" Santo
* [[James Philbrook]] as Bruce King
* [[Bartlett Robinson]] as District Attorney Milton
* [[Marion Marshall]] as Rita (uncredited)
* [[Gage Clarke]] as Attorney Richard G. Tibrow (credited surname as "Clark")
* [[Joe De Santis]] as Al Matthews
* [[John Marley]] as Father Devers
* [[Raymond Bailey]] as [[San Quentin State Prison|San Quentin]] Warden
* [[Gertrude Flynn]] as San Quentin Matron
* [[Russell Thorson]] as San Quentin Sergeant
* [[Dabbs Greer]] as the San Quentin Captain
* [[Stafford Repp]] as the police Sergeant
* [[Gavin MacLeod]] as the police Lieutenant
* [[Alice Backes]] as Barbara the San Quentin Nurse
* [[Wendell Holmes (actor)|Wendell Holmes]] as the police detective
* [[George Putnam (newsman)|George Putnam]] as himself
* [[Peter Breck]] as Ben Miranda (uncredited)

==Accuracy==
According to historian Kathleen Cairns, ''I Want to Live!'' "implied that Graham's guilt or innocence was largely irrelevant, that the real crime was committed by a justice system that framed her and a media that abetted the effort...&nbsp;In reality, the film took liberty with many facts of the case."{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=114}} The film also suggests that Graham, though believed to have [[psychopath|sociopath]]ic tendencies in real life, was dangerous only to herself as a result of her loveless childhood and abusive mother.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=114}}

A prologue and epilogue contributed to the film by Edward Montgomery, the journalist who covered Graham's case for the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'', characterize the film's content, which largely portrays Graham as innocent of the murder, as factual. However, there may have been substantial evidence of Graham's complicity in the crime, including her taped confession to an undercover officer.{{sfn|Gilmore|2005|pages=288–291}} In an interview with [[Robert Osborne]], Susan Hayward admitted that her research on the evidence and letters in the case led her to believe that Graham was guilty.<ref name=osborne>{{cite AV media|title=I Want to Live!|medium=Telecast of film with commentary|last=Osborne|first=Robert|date=February 20, 2009|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]}}</ref>

Despite some of the liberties taken with Graham's story, the film's depiction of the California gas chamber was regarded as accurate.{{sfn|Papke|2012|p=440}}<ref name=stafford>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/78339|title=I Want to Live|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|first=Jeff|last=Stafford|url-status=live|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603040715/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/78339%7C0/I-Want-to-Live-.html|access-date=December 15, 2015}}</ref>

==Production==
[[File:Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! trailer.JPG|thumb|Susan Hayward in the trailer for ''I Want to Live! '']]

===Development===
The film's screenplay was originally written by [[Don Mankiewicz]] based on letters by convicted murderer [[Barbara Graham]], who was executed in 1955, and a series of articles by journalist [[Edward S. Montgomery]].{{sfn|Cairns|2013|pages=111–112}} In early 1958, after a draft of the screenplay was completed, [[Nelson Gidding]] was commissioned to write a redraft and tighten the narrative as it "lacked focus" and contained too many pages concentrating on Graham's troubled childhood.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}} Gidding's redraft omitted any depiction of the murder of Mable Monohan as well as Graham's months spent at [[San Quentin State Prison]] during her appeals.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}}

===Casting===
When questioned about taking the controversial role, Susan Hayward said: "I just had to play her. If I hadn't thought they should make [the film], I wouldn't have played the part."{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}}

===Filming===
Principal photography began in March 1958. Production was stopped after Hayward contracted [[measles]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 2, 1958|page=2|title=Star Gets Measles|url=https://archive.org/details/variety210-1958-04/page/n1/mode/1up?view=theater|via=[[Archive.org]]|access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref>

To ensure that the execution sequence was depicted as accurately as possible, Wise attended a public execution at San Quentin.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}} Hayward commented after completing filming that her simulated experience of execution convinced her that the practice was "medieval."{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}}

===Musical score===
{{Main|I Want to Live! (score)}}
In addition to Mandel's score, the film features jazz themes performed by [[Gerry Mulligan]]'s combo. Two [[soundtrack album]]s were released by [[United Artists Records]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/ua/ua4000-5000.pdf |title=United Artists UAL-40000/UAL 4000 mono/UAS 5000 stereo Series |publisher=Both Sides Now Publications |access-date= August 18, 2015}}</ref>

==Release==
===Box office===
Although some sources state that the film grossed $3.5 million,{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=123}} the [[Walter Wanger]] biography ''Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent'' indicated that the film grossed $5,641,711, with a net profit of $2,455,570.{{sfn|Bernstein|2000|p=446}} Hayward was entitled to 37% of the film's overall profit.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety212-1958-11#page/n152/mode/1up|page=5|title=Susan Hayward|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 12, 1958|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

===Critical response===
[[File:Susan Hayward - 1959 Oscar-1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.9|Hayward received an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for her portrayal of Barbara Graham.]]
Upon release, ''I Want to Live!'' was met with a largely favorable critical response, with many critics heralding the film as an "indictment against capital punishment," citing its clinical, harrowing depiction of execution.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=120}} Producer [[Walter Wanger]] received numerous congratulatory letters praising the film after its release, including those from writers [[Arthur Miller]], [[Paddy Chayefsky]], [[Leon Uris]] and [[Albert Camus]], all of whom were ardent opponents of capital punishment.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=121}}

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine published a favorable review: "There is no attempt to gloss the character of Barbara Graham, only an effort to understand it through some fine irony and pathos. She had no hesitation about indulging in any form of crime or vice that promised excitement on her own, rather mean, terms ... Hayward brings off this complex characterization. Simon Oakland, as Montgomery, who first crucified Barbara Graham in print and then attempted to undo what he had done, underplays his role with assurance."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1957/film/reviews/i-want-to-live-1200419124/ |title=I Want to Live! |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=December 31, 1957|access-date=March 24, 2008 |author=<!--Not stated-->}}</ref>

Film critic [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Miss Hayward plays it superbly, under the consistently sharp direction of Robert Wise, who has shown here a stunning mastery of the staccato realistic style. From a loose and wise-cracking B-girl she moves onto levels of cold disdain and then plunges down to depths of terror and bleak surrender as she reaches the end. Except that the role does not present us a precisely pretty character, its performance merits for Miss Hayward the most respectful applause."<ref name="nyt58">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/11/19/archives/vivid-performance-by-susan-hayward-actress-stars-in-i-want-to-live.html|last=Crowther| first=Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther|work=[[The New York Times]]|title= Vivid Performance by Susan Hayward; Actress Stars in ''I Want to Live''|date=November 19, 1958|access-date=March 24, 2008}}</ref>

Gene Blake, the reporter who covered the actual murder trial for the ''[[Los Angeles Mirror|Los Angeles Daily Mirror]]'', called the film "a dramatic and eloquent piece of propaganda for the abolition of the death penalty."<ref>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Gene|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/11/barbara-graham.html|title=Barbara Graham case revisited, November 28, 1958|date=November 28, 1958|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Mirror|Los Angeles Daily Mirror]]|via=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref>

By March 1959, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums "prompted a rush of jazz film scores" and cited as examples [[Duke Ellington]]'s score for ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]'', the release of ''[[The Five Pennies]]'' (a biopic about the jazz band leader [[Red Nichols]]) and the 1960 documentary ''[[Jazz on a Summer's Day]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=March 9, 1959|page=42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ux4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42|title=Late 50s Bid for Posterity Fame as Real 'Jazz Age'|first=June|last=Bundy|access-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref>

In a 1993 reappraisal, film critic [[Danny Peary]] wrote that Hayward is "...the actress of that era [the 1940s and '50s] who most needs rediscovery, and the best film to start with is ''I Want to Live!''."{{sfn|Peary|1993|p=146}}

The review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports a 94% approval rating based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_want_to_live |title=I Want to Live! (1958) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=November 13, 2022}}</ref>

===Awards and honors===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Year
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="6"| [[31st Academy Awards|1958]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Robert Wise]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"| <ref name="Oscars1958">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959|title=The 31st Academy Awards {{!}} 1958|access-date=August 21, 2011|work=[[Academy Awards|Oscars.org]]|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Susan Hayward]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| [[Don Mankiewicz]] and [[Nelson Gidding]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Black-and-White]]
| [[Lionel Lindon]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[William Hornbeck]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Gordon E. Sawyer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[AFI's 10 Top 10|American Film Institute's 10 Top 10]]
| 2008
| colspan="2"| [[AFI's 10 Top 10#Courtroom drama|Courtroom Drama Film]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781 |title=Official Ballot |format=PDF |access-date=August 19, 2016 |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716071937/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |work=[[AFI's 10 Top 10]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[13th British Academy Film Awards|1959]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actress]]
| rowspan="2"| Susan Hayward
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]]|title=Film: Foreign Actress in 1960|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1960/film/foreign-actress|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603050809/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1960/film/foreign-actress|url-status=live|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| 1959
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[11th Directors Guild of America Awards|1959]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Robert Wise
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="3"| [[16th Golden Globe Awards|1959]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/i-want-live|title=Golden Globe Awards for 'I Want To Live!'|url-status=live|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603050908/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/i-want-live|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Susan Hayward
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Robert Wise
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[Grammy Awards]]
| [[1st Annual Grammy Awards|1959]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television|Best Sound Track Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast]]
| [[Johnny Mandel]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| rowspan="4"| 1959
| colspan="2"| Top Drama
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|
|-
| Top Female Dramatic Performance
| Susan Hayward
| {{nom}}
|-
| Top Cinematography – Black-and-White
| Lionel Lindon
| {{nom}}
|-
| Best Score
| Johnny Mandel
| {{nom}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Mar del Plata International Film Festival]]
| rowspan="2"| 1958
| Best Film
| Robert Wise
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|
|-
| Best Actress
| rowspan="3"| Susan Hayward
| {{won}}
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|1958]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[Sant Jordi Awards]]
| 1958
| Best Foreign Actress
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[11th Writers Guild of America Awards|1959]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama|Best Written American Drama]]
| Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}

===Home media===
[[MGM Home Entertainment]] released ''I Want to Live!'' on [[DVD]] on May 7, 2002.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[DVD Talk]]|title=I Want to Live!: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video|date=May 19, 2002|last=Ordway|first=Holly E.|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/3909/i-want-to-live/|url-status=live|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603045904/https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/3909/i-want-to-live/|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref> [[Kino International (company)|Kino Lorber]] reissued the film on DVD featuring a restored print in October 2015.<ref>{{cite web|work=DVD Talk|title=I Want to Live!: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video|date=November 12, 2015|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/70058/i-want-to-live/|last=Pewenofkit|first=Scott|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603050214/https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/70058/i-want-to-live/|archive-date=June 3, 2020|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref> In November 2016, [[Twilight Time (home video label)|Twilight Time]] released the film on [[Blu-ray]] disc in a limited edition of 3,000 units.<ref>{{cite web|title=I Want to Live! (Limited Edition Series) (Blu-ray)|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/71664/i-want-to-live-limited-edition-series/|last=Harrison|first=William|date=December 30, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200603050357/https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/71664/i-want-to-live-limited-edition-series/|archive-date=June 3, 2020|work=DVD Talk|access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref>

==Adaptation==
''I Want to Live!'' was [[Television film|remade for television]] [[1983 in television|in 1983]]. The television film features [[Lindsay Wagner]], [[Martin Balsam]], [[Pamela Reed]], [[Harry Dean Stanton]], [[Dana Elcar]], [[Ellen Geer]], [[Robert Ginty]] and [[Barry Primus]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Matthew|title=Walter Wanger: Hollywood Independent|url=https://archive.org/details/walterwangerholl0000bern|url-access=registration|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-816-63548-1|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota}}
* {{cite book|last=Cairns|first=Kathleen|year=2013|title=Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln, Nebraska|isbn= 978-0-803-23009-5}}
* {{cite book|last=Gilmore|first=John|title=L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times|year=2005|publisher=Amok Books|location=Los Angeles, California|isbn=978-1-878-92316-5}}
* {{cite book|title=Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions|first=David Ray |last=Papke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DE5Ia-KKGgMC&pg=PT440|isbn=978-0-769-84753-5|year=2012|publisher=LexisNexis|location=New York City, New York}}
* {{cite book|last=Peary|first=Danny|year=1993|title=Alternate Oscars: One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress — From 1927 to the Present|publisher=Delta|location=New York City, New York|isbn=978-0-385-30332-3}}
{{Refend}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0051758|title=I Want to Live!}}
* {{TCMDb title|id=78889|title=I Want to Live!}}
* {{AFI film|52606}}
* {{YouTube|X_iQdDy3tr0|''I Want to Live!'' film trailer}}

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