I Want to Live! (1958)
"The murder trial that shook the world!"
ThumbScore
👍 79%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 94%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham
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
Is I Want to Live! good?
Most people think so. 79% audience score, estimated from 123 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 94%.
Overview
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row. Wikipedia ↗
