Hide Article Text (OCR)
Want to LiveBy MARION AITCHISONHrraid SUN WrtUrA top California newsman's articles and a condemned girl s letters are the* source of the story of *‘I Want to Live, nowat Loews 170th St. and Riviera Theaters The pirttire isReview I not ^nr rh*birenfor whom. save i he brief hotMoviemusic interludes, it offers nothing. Nor is it for your lightermoodsRut it is strong factualdrama, thoughtfully presented,with a harrowing climax that is little short of ncrve-shattrr-We found this, howeser.ing.unnecessarily drawn out. hut perhaps that is the way it happened.Ed Montgomery is thp newsman whose stories—at first against, but later more sympathetic to the girl Barbara Graham—are drawn upon./ BRIEFI actualutory of a girl condemned to death, hated on herlettern and ntoriet hy a Pulitzer Prise-u inning reportertogether with her letters, for the dynamic script.Susan Hayward, in the dd ficult and manv-faceted rob of the girl, is superbly dra matic, rowdy and rough, blindto accepled morals, but tenderand sincere at times, to arouse your sympathy.With reform school and prison sentence for perjury behind her, the girl jumps her parole to become a pick-up and laterCHAMPAGNE ROOM(.HATEAURESORT MOTELDICK1Saturday, .Jan. 24, 1959THE MIAMI HERALD3-Brim Dramaa gambler s shill In Los Angeles.Temporarily, then, she seeksa better life, marries and hasi son to whom she is devoted '.ut not for long. The husband s lrug addiction brings a break and Barbara returns to her former gang.You know ahe takes part in a robbery hut whether sheis really in*ol\ed in the murder of which she and her two companions are accused andfor which she is sentenced to death is up to you—and the Jury—to decide.IKnek IKootn Tl*«*air«*TONIGHT AND SUNDAY2HHO « oral War HI 3-170«There is top tenseness andsuspense in sequences of thetrial and her imprisonment.The fact that most of the players, except for Miss Hayward, are unfamiliar and that much of the background is filmed on-the-spot, provides added authenticity.CELLARS OF PARIScmiSK muiLONG SAM*SUBURBANCO PfATl/ilW#Jacklt Maya laHy WatstR • la tty Start Altai Das* • Miff itD»t*« Ctrti • Itgs WarrtiSfetvttat ft P.M. ft | A M,ItfttR#* MvcfcacAofttt St. at litcoyaa llvsl/CHILDREN S SHOWS ToJu«
Newspaper Details
Miami Herald
Miami, Florida, US
Sat, Jan 24, 1959
Page 20
Full Page
Clipped by
Rotten T.
USA 18 Jun 2020
Other Publications Near Miami, Florida
Miami Jewish Floridian
Miami Times
Miami Tribune
Miami Herald
