I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

Year: 1958

Runtime: 120 mins

Language: English

Director: Robert Wise

CrimeDramaCrime drugs and gangstersViolent crime and drugsPowerful stories of heartbreak and suffering

The murder trial that shook the world! Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

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