I Want to Live! Page #3

Synopsis: Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.
Director(s): Robert Wise
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1958
120 min
500 Views


What's up?

All I know is

the police contact says we're hot.

- Are the cops liable to show?

- Are the cops liable to show?

I wouldn't worry.

Good-looking dame like you.

I got half a dozen bum cheques around,

a busted parole, a landlord on my neck.

- I'm broke, Hank's disappeared.

- And it's raining.

- Take me with you, Perk.

- With the baby?

I can leave him with Hank's mother.

How about it? if I'm picked up with Bobby,

they'll put him in a foster home.

I got the answer.

She comes with me to Acapulco. Simple.

I told you, King,

I don't think Mexico's a smart idea.

I don't care what you think.

What do you say, hon?

It's nice down there. It's sunny.

I'll rub oil all over your body

so's you don't get too bad a burn.

It so happens I'd take a rap

to avoid a trip with you.

- We could have fun together.

- You're not my type.

I heard there was no such thing

as "not your type".

Until I met you.

And, believe me, it's purely personal.

Don't get sore, glamour boy.

You can't win 'em all.

Anyway, she's coming with us.

I'll send the three of you postcards.

You let me know which pen.

Watch out,

Spotter to Control.

Boarding Lynwood bus.

2659 southbound.

One tail With her. Over.

Good work, Spotter.

Control to Walker.

if feasible, call intersecting streets.

Let's go.

Excuse me, sir.

is this cross street Burgess?

Yeah, this is Burgess. Royal and Burgess.

That Ethel's on the ball.

Mobile Three. Royal and Burgess.

Wait at Royal.

Take number one position. Out.

Control. At destination

call in all divisin one units.

Destination is where she goes to cover.

Read me?

Cut that screamer, Ted.

For once, write it the way it happens,

Montgomery.

Don't worry, inspector.

I'll spell your name right.

A tramp, but smart.

Good-looking girl, too.

The kind that fools you.

I've seen ngel pusses who'd shoot

their grandmothers in the back,

and take bets on which way they'd fail.

Excuse me.

Getting off at Barham Piaza. Getting off.

Control to Walker. Drop off.

We're putting the sergeant on Graham.

We wanna play safe.

Don't work too close yourself, please.

And on the local scene, l have

a newsflash on the Monahan murder.

Police announce a break

in the brutal slaying of Mabel Monahan,

found beaten to death

11 days ago in Burbank.

Bruce King, a self-styled steeplejack,

was picked up on the Mexican border.

According to one source, he has given

authorities several significant leads.

Have you ever wondered whether...

- Tomorrow we move out.

- It'll be tougher to visit Bobby.

Are you still on that kid? What's for chow?

Champagne and winter strawberries.

- You...

- I'm not your maid,

All right, you two.

Santa Claus's workshop

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Nelson Gidding

Nelson Roosevelt Gidding (September 15, 1919 – May 1, 2004) was an American screenwriter specializing in adaptations. A longtime collaboration with director Robert Wise began with Gidding's screenplay for I Want to Live! (1958), which earned him an Oscar nomination. His long-running course on screenwriting adaptions at the University of Southern California inspired screenwriters of the present generation, including David S. Goyer. Gidding was born in New York and attended school at Phillips Exeter Academy; as a young man he was friends with Norman Mailer. After graduating from Harvard University, he entered the Army Air Forces in World War II as the navigator on a B-26. His plane was shot down over Italy, but he survived; he spent 18 months as a POW but effected an escape. Returning from the war, in 1946 he published his only novel, End Over End, begun while captive in a German prison camp. In 1949, Gidding married Hildegarde Colligan; together they had a son, Joshua Gidding, who today is a New York City writer and college professor. In Hollywood, Gidding entered work in television, writing for such series as Suspense and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and eventually moved into feature films like The Helen Morgan Story (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Haunting (1963), Lost Command (1966), The Andromeda Strain (1971), and The Hindenburg (1975). After the death of his first wife on June 13, 1995, in 1998 Gidding married Chun-Ling Wang, a Chinese immigrant. Gidding taught at USC until his death from congestive heart failure at a Santa Monica hospital in 2004. more…

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