Susan Hayward won the Oscar for committed scene-trashing in this 1958 movie, which?based on the real-life execution of Barbara Graham, a "goodtime girl" (possibly) framed for murder and sent to the gas chamber in 1955?was very much the Monster of its day. Robert Wise directs as if it were a jazz documentary, taking cues from the great score by Johnny Mandel, itself cooled to within an inch of its life by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
Susan Hayward won the Oscar for committed scene-trashing in this 1958 movie, which?based on the real-life execution of Barbara Graham, a “goodtime girl” (possibly) framed for murder and sent to the gas chamber in 1955?was very much the Monster of its day. Robert Wise directs as if it were a jazz documentary, taking cues from the great score by Johnny Mandel, itself cooled to within an inch of its life by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
