I Want to Live! (1958) Reviews & Ratings

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I Want to Live! reviews

I Want to Live! holds a 7.0/10 average from 122 TMDB ratings.

My heart bleeds for you. How can I help you Inspector, buy a few tickets to the policemen's ball? Right from the off there's a realistic feel to the film that immediately draws you in. Be it the characters being acted out so deftly, or the whole composition of director Robert Wise's work, it's quite something and sets the viewer up a treat. It somehow manages to put you in there with Barbara Graham so as to make you…
— John Chard (9/10)

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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