Let Me Tell You A Story About Heroin

Susan Hayward won an Oscar. Susan Hayward was a protégé and fan of Barbara Stanwyck. Susan Hayward would like NOT to be put to death for her part in murder, please. Robert Wise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture AND The Sound of Music) directs. And this film showcases not only Miss Hayward, but a crazy intense jazz score. Unlike the usual “women in prison” pictures, this one features a protagonist who is not misunderstood, or innocent of all charges. She’s a hooker, and a lifelong criminal. But does she deserve the death penalty? Based, as they say, on a true story.

I Want To Live

Shelly Brisbin with Micheline Maynard

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I Want To Live

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• I Want to Live trailer

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The Self-Referential LTS

• 70 Things Just Keep Happening And Nothing Makes Sense
• 22 Come For The Aubrey Plaza Energy, Stay For The Tom Neal Back Story
• 57 Cookie Full Of Arsenic
• 95 My Film Erogenous Zones
• 97 Come On, Someone Shoot Him!
• 1 Paradise City
• 105 We’re Gonna Digress
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Next time, we’ll watch

• The Band Wagon

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