I Want to Live! (1958)

A woman is wrongly convicted and sentenced to death – the unusual fact for an American film being that she is portrayed as being fairly unlikable.

But, the film forces you to keep emotional distance by, for example, having a stuffed tiger represent her love for her son, but giving us precious few scenes with the actual child. Even with Susan Hayward's brassylady-o-meter breaking from overuse, it's pretty good.

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