Interesting and stirring film based based on life and death of Barbara Graham in which Susan Haywayd provides an unforgettable performance. At one time or another , she was convicted
of forgery, perjury, prostitution , among other counts . Concerning the adventures and misfortunes of a party-girl of dubious moral standards who has been condemned for some petty crimes and misdemeanours . After that, she becomes involved in a crime, get caught , implicated and eventually sentenced for killing , finally sent to death row . Later on , some people start a campaign to save her from the gas chamber and concludes she was probably innocent of the last charge . The true story of Barbara Graham whose murder trial shocked the World ¡. Barbara Graham's Last Scream From Gas Chamber ¡.
This is a thought-provoking drama with emotion , thrills , sadness and awesome interpretation . The final scenes at the gas chamber , preparation , Susan Hayward's faces and execution are extremely powerful and moving . Here Susan Hayward as a brazen bad girl gives a very acting , though overacting at times, winning deservedly Academy Award . Susan is the main star and essential axis of this nice film, stealing totally the show, and shading other actors , but she is well accompanied by a frankly good support cast . As appearing as secondaries some familiar faces and delivering nice acting, such as : James Philbrook as her traitor husband, Simon Oakland as a journalist who becomes convinced that she may be innocent , Gavin McLeod, Theodore Bikel and John Marley as a priest .
Special mention for the atmospheric jazzy musical score by Johnny Mandel. As well as evocative cinematography in Black and White by Lionel Lindon . The picture was compellingly directed by the great director Robet Wise. This American filmmaker whose work became more variable as his career progressed , generally at his best with dark themes and in small-scale . His bursting as a filmmaker came when the great producer Val Lewton hired him for The Curse of the Cat People . His best movies are well clustered in ten years that followed from 1944-1953, such as : The Body Snatchers , Born To Kill , Blood on the Moon, and The house on Telegraph Hill. But his best movie of this fruitful period resulted to be The Set-Up with Robert Ryan . Later on, he realized a movie that triggered the revival of SciFi genre : the classy The Day the Earth Stood Still. Shortly affter , he made two jingoist WWII movies : Destination Gobi and The Desert Rats . Furthermore , another classic terror movie : The Haunting . And two very successful musical films : West Side Story and The Sound of Music . And other films of wide range and all kinds of genres such as : The Sand Pebbles, The Hindenburg, Star Trek the motion picture , Andromeda Strain, among others .
This is a thought-provoking drama with emotion , thrills , sadness and awesome interpretation . The final scenes at the gas chamber , preparation , Susan Hayward's faces and execution are extremely powerful and moving . Here Susan Hayward as a brazen bad girl gives a very acting , though overacting at times, winning deservedly Academy Award . Susan is the main star and essential axis of this nice film, stealing totally the show, and shading other actors , but she is well accompanied by a frankly good support cast . As appearing as secondaries some familiar faces and delivering nice acting, such as : James Philbrook as her traitor husband, Simon Oakland as a journalist who becomes convinced that she may be innocent , Gavin McLeod, Theodore Bikel and John Marley as a priest .
Special mention for the atmospheric jazzy musical score by Johnny Mandel. As well as evocative cinematography in Black and White by Lionel Lindon . The picture was compellingly directed by the great director Robet Wise. This American filmmaker whose work became more variable as his career progressed , generally at his best with dark themes and in small-scale . His bursting as a filmmaker came when the great producer Val Lewton hired him for The Curse of the Cat People . His best movies are well clustered in ten years that followed from 1944-1953, such as : The Body Snatchers , Born To Kill , Blood on the Moon, and The house on Telegraph Hill. But his best movie of this fruitful period resulted to be The Set-Up with Robert Ryan . Later on, he realized a movie that triggered the revival of SciFi genre : the classy The Day the Earth Stood Still. Shortly affter , he made two jingoist WWII movies : Destination Gobi and The Desert Rats . Furthermore , another classic terror movie : The Haunting . And two very successful musical films : West Side Story and The Sound of Music . And other films of wide range and all kinds of genres such as : The Sand Pebbles, The Hindenburg, Star Trek the motion picture , Andromeda Strain, among others .