Susan Hayward was one of the most insightful brilliant actresses - where she got the insight to get that performance is a gift. No-one could method-act that. A genius and deserved every inch of the Academy Award she got for that.
And Susan thought Graham was as guilty as hell. This was a horrifying scene, and Susan deserved the Oscar she got. However, Graham got exactly what she deserved.
I was so emotional when I seen this I remember when I watched it as a child and couldn’t wait to see it as an adult I looked it up until I found it in the same old thing tears just dripping down. Susan Hayward was a fabulous actress in this movie♥️
Susan Hayward's greatest performance on screen. Certainly worthy of an Oscar. I saw this film when I was 20 yrs old and I will never forget after the end I ran out of the theater in tears.
@@verymozart--She and two thugs killed a disabled woman in her home trying to get some supposed hidden money. The thugs brought Barbara along to get the woman to open the door "to use the telephone to call the auto club" or tow truck or ride home or something.
@@GD-me2lv - What? Are you one of those people that think all Americans are corageous, all Germans are nazis, all Japanese are bad ? That's what movies always showed us, but not real at all.
Hallo, ich bin German 1960 geb.Ich kann noch keine 10Jahre alt gewesen sein, als dieser Film im Sonntags Nachmittagsprogramm war und ich ihn mit meiner Mutter sah, die kaum Gefühl hatte, weil sie ein Bombentrümmer Kind war .Ich erinnere aber noch sehr gut wie schockiert ich war und leise weinte . Ich habe wegen diesem Film verstanden, als ich in der Schule auf riesiger Leinwand von unserem Klassenlehrer den Film mit den mächtigen Leichenbergen gesehen habe . Manche von uns sind raus gelaufen . Ich dachte das ich nun gesehen hatte, wie es ist im Gas zu sterben. Kindern sowas zu zeigen ist ein Verbrechen . Wenn eine Idee sichtbar wird, setzt sie irgend jemand immer um :-((( Wer abscheuliches tun will holt sich andere Leute nur dazu, um seine eine eigene Schuld zu teilen und Anderen Angst und Schuldgefühle zu machen . Ein Mord und eine Hinrichtung sind mehr als 2 Tote.Jeder Zuschauer muss auch damit leben . Jeder de er weis muss damit leben und es macht Selbsthass und Hass .Das ist kein Mörder wert
I loved Hayward in 'Valley of the Dolls,' 'With a Song in my heart,' 'Backstreet' and her last TV role "Say Goodbye Maggie Cole." She died shortly thereafter in her 50's dying from Brain Cancer. Wonderful actress!
@@bharadwaj25 - I believe the English title is "I want to live" . I watched it in a Spanish speaking country and there it was called "The one who didn't want to die" (La que no quería morir). It was filmed in 1958.
Interesting fact: hydrogen cyanide condenses to a liquid at 78 degrees F. So the gas chamber always has to be kept at well over 80 degrees inside, otherwise the hydrogen cyanide will "rain out" onto the floor as a liquid.
@@sirius-petrusse5716--I've lived in California all my life. We DO use Zyklon B. We just call it something else. :) It's only used on the worst murderers. There are some evil people whose crimes make them not deserving to live.
That was true of the first makeshift gas chamber Nevada used because they didn’t use cyanide eggs mixed with sulfuric acid but I’m not sure that is the case with this type of gas chamber. That gas chamber used liquid cyanide pumped to a device that converted the liquid to a mist that would instantly vaporize if the air temps are warm enough which they weren’t on the day of the first lethal gas execution
God this would have been very shocking for its time.I remember reading that the director spent time at San Quentin watching an execution and learning about the preparation of an execution this way.The clock handle counting down and the clinical feel made this scene quite chilling to watch.
hey said that Barbara replied "How the hell would you know" instead. The capt. being 84 years old at one point in time remembers this conversation and he said "What could I say? She was right" ...So sad:(
I Want To Live! is indeed Susan Hayward at her finest - no question about that. The Oscar for Best Actress was well deserved. Incidentally, TCM had the movie on the day of the 83rd Academy Awards telecast. I know out there that there is a 1983 TV movie remake, but it does not come close. I feel that a remake of the classic 1958 version of I Want To Live! is long overdue.
Thank you for your reply. Truly, the producer went to extraordinary measures. I am too-well-aware of the exact layout of the SQ gas chamber execution assembly. I've looked at the blueprints. I've looked at the various iterations of the mesh chairs, inside the gas chamber. I've seen many pictures of the gallery area and the anteroom. The set for this movie was so exact -- so exact -- that it even fooled me. Lastly, S. Hayward deserved an oscar for her stunning performance.
It was around the point when they started “staying” the execution that I literally had to pause and question whether this was a horror movie and not just a drama. Susan Hayward was iconic in this role!
Do you recall another movie where an innocent (man, I think) was in jail, and a woman was trying to prove his innocence and as you came running to the prison with the proof they'd already gassed him? Honestly, I can't remember if that was a real movie or a nightmare I had after seeing this movie.
Stanley Costello was your day and you got a lot to say to him so he was just saying he had to birthday fantasy handcuff me. No escape. A men who have wrestling scissor hold. Xxxxx
All this mythology about cyanide being quick & painless is stupid. Certainly it's quick, as it interferes w/cellular respiration (in essence, it keeps oxygen from being converted to energy), but "painless"? As the Brits say, "codswallop!" Each cell literally "starves" when cyanide chokes off the ability to make energy. Writ large, it triggers the pain/fear reflex which gets the victim to try & escape.a toxic situation. At "best", the condemned loses consciousness in approximately 2-10 minutes, but almost all of that time is spent trying to escape & in agony. Pretty dangerous to the witnesses too, as the hatch & window gaskets aren't 100% sealed. A witness could easily be gassed themselves. In short, execution by gas is yet another exercise in BS. Some death penalty states are looking at nitrogen or inert gas hypoxia as an alternative. Certainly, it holds promise, but it's years away. It also ducks the main concerns; there's no absolutely "humane" execution method (which, to be honest, doesn't really bother me) & the legal system is defective. Even today, it's far too easy to kill someone for a particular crime they DIDN'T do.
@@scotcarr3390 you are right about the physiology but totally wrong about any (physical) danger to witnesses. The seals and the chamber are massively over engineered, regularly maintained, tested prior to every execution, and should they still somehow fail gas will still not leak out, because the air in the chamber is held below ambient atmospheric pressure , meaning that air will leak _in_ not out, that is the purpose of the liquid column shown at 3:06, it measures differential pressure. Should the unthinkable happen, the victim(s) would be administered the cyanide antidote injection which quickly reverses the effect. So don't worry about that.
@deivette Yes, the shot at 5:27 shows the roof of the chamber. The roof is sort of cone-shaped, actually made up of 8 triangular pieces. The thing at the very top (above the light fixture in the shot) is the chamber's exhaust valve. It's just a big metal disk, which works like a chimney damper. It's connected to a blower that sits on top of the chamber, which ventilates the gas to the outdoors. At 3:04 the guard pulls a lever to open the valve, and at 3:07 he checks pressure in the chamber.
This was one of my mom’s favorite movies. I can’t count the number of times that we’d stay up late together watching this movie. It was so scary to watch her being escorted into the gas chamber…knowing what was about to happen to her. Chills.
The deputy district attorney said he stood right by the window of the gas chamber and watched Barbra Graham die. He said she died hard spewing saliva from her mouth "like a spray", and drooling off her chin. He said he did the same a few hours later when Santo and Perkins were gassed. He said Mabel Monohan died hard also. She was beaten about the face with a pistol and the cause of death was strangulation. I suspect she was beaten so badly because they were tying to get her to reveal where money or valuables where hidden. There is a pretty sad picture of Graham holding her young son Tommy, just before she is executed.
Yes, I read somewhere that the movie's director had witnessed a real execution at San Quentin, so knew exactly what happens, but he said he chose to show just a hint of the actual effects on the inmate. In that era, I suppose a movie simply wouldn't be allowed to present such graphic detail.
@Voozun444 Same. Finally decided to go looking for the name of the movie after it started to drive me nuts. It's interesting to go back and rediscover all those things that influenced you as a child.
This is a good depiction of the procedure for an American gas chamber execution. Another scene shows the preparation of the chemicals which produce deadly gas. BTW, most of the chambers were made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. - look them up. The San Quentin chamber even had their red oval logo on the door!
I saw this movie as a Kid and she deserved the Academy Award for this movie but in real life of this woman she was innocent...it was her boyfriend that committed this crime and she died for it....So Sad...
In real life she was guilty as hell. This movie is a highly fictionalized account of the matter and a piece of effective anti-DP propaganda. She was one of three people who broke into the home of a 64 year old widow and bludgeoned and suffocated her to death because they thought she had money and jewelry in the house.
I read about the real Barbara Graham. She did have a hard life but she also brutally killed the lady she and the two guys were robbing. Murderers on death row always go through multiple appeals to save their lives BUT THE VICTIM ALWAYS GETS THE DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT APPEAL.
For all the people saying this execution is too peaceful to be realistic, do you really think they would expose Miss Hayward to real cyanide? Also, in the 50s people were less desensitised to be violence, so I don't think they would have gone to see a movie with someone writing in agony for 5-7 minutes.
they witnessed the war and fucking holocaust itself a few years prior, they've seen more violence and agony than probably any other generation in history
Susan Hayward was a great actress. I saw the movie a long time ago, based on a true story, Hollywood did scramble some facts, aka, changed the story a little bit. The real Barbra Graham was not the innocent the movie protraid her to be. Barbra did everything she was big enough to do.
And more. When her thug partners kidnapped and killed a witness, she knew about it and told an undercover cop that she laughed every time she heard that the witness was being hidden by the police. I wonder if she knew about the other murders these men did, including a whole family with three children.
"This is more moving then Susan Hayward's climatic speech in I Want to Live!" "You're just ready to fly right out of here aren't ya?" "Well excuse me for living, Anita Bryant!"
@CondemnedGirl Yes you're right. Thanks. I think at 3.04 he "closes" the valve and pressures the chamber to test the air(gas) tightness. Don't want to kill the spectators! You seem to have good technical knowledge. Are you an engineer? What were you condemned for? What's the outcome likely to be?
It's supposed to scare you. Deterrent is part of capital punishment. Only works on people with the mental capacity to plan ahead, which is why it is considered unfair for many black inmates (read the study where children get a treat now, or two if they wait a while - black children almost always choose immediate gratification, where other races wait a while and get an extra reward .)
@@forestdenizen6497--The range of people with IQs between average and mentally retarded are the ones who do the most screw-ups. Having children without money or a husband, getting multiple girls pregnant, dropping out of school, child abuse and neglect, failure to save money for out of the ordinary expenses, becoming drug addicted, keeping dirty disorderly homes, stealing. There are backward places in the world where most of the people are morons who have 6-12 children and live in shacks and starve, and even the rich people don't have fully functioning toilets or drinkable running water.
She seems to have been given special treatment in terms of her execution outfit i read that those executed in the gas chamber could not wear shoes and stockings and the rest of their clothing was minimal for health and safety of prison staff
I Want to Live! is a 1958 film which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, starring Susan Hayward as Graham. The film earned Hayward a Best Actress Oscar. The execution was part of the movie and not the actually execution. And it is a noted fact that as the real Barbara Graham died in the gas chamber she did scream.
Those Romantic 50s Movie. Its more than Sure that this is played, a real Execution looks a LITTLE bit different. In Fact the People to cough to Death and scream for sure.
Robert Curtis I didn't mean to say that people should be executed by cyanide in any form. I think it's cruel and unusual punishment. I think the guillotine is probably the least cruel even though it's messy.
Sheriff Gillespie said it best on the TV show In The Heat Of the Night: the only humane way to execute is to tell the person they have been pardoned, then from behind, a bullet to the brain. Think about it - they have a moment of peace, then instantaneous death, no pain.
Bob nagel I think that using a combo of a short and long acting benzo with fentanyl is very painless i know because i intentionally used it on myself to never wake up 2 times only to awake once in the hospital and second time on the bathroom floor and for me it was simply abcense of conciousness i dont even recall becoming sedated , only preparing my syringe and downing pills thats it , but everyone is diff.
Susan Hayward was a combination of great sexy glamour and a great actress. A former co star the great Frederic March said "Every inch of that Woman (Susan) is an actress! Garbo, Hepburn, Stanwyck all admired . Hayward. Director of ' I Want to Live' Robert Wise called Hayward second to Garbo in ability. This great movie and Ms. Hayward were applauded worldwide. Ms Hayward won the Oscar and received a curtain call from the Academy for the Win, something I have seen only that once RIP Susan
I was quoting what she said in the movie, but if you want to be exact, in real life, she was quoted as saying, "How the hell do you know, you silly rascal."
Oh nevermind, spoke too soon. It has to be a particular form of B12 however. Another antidote is sodium thiosulphite, combined with amyl nitrite (poppers.) Some types of B12 contain cyanide already.
The Godfather, The Beverly Hillbillys, The Twilight Zone, Little house on the praire....the late great SUSAN HAYWARD...and a bunch of other wonderful actors.
Arggg. A simpler method-painless-is a 10000 watt microwave emitter over the head. In 3 seconds at that power level the brain reaches 125° & you feel no pain. at 4-5 seconds- your brain is 145° & in 15 seconds it's 300° & you're ready to serve.
How do you know there is no pain, has anybody live to tell you. Why don't you be a guinea pig and try your 10000 watt microwave for 3 seconds and let us know how it turns out.
I had heard somewhere years ago they had a similar device In the Soviet Union they used to kill enemy agents and foreign dignitaries-particularly from the United States. They would all gather in the “room,” the Russians would leave, locking the victims inside, and then nuke them till they literally exploded.
@26highstreet Yeah, and in time, you might be able to convict them later, but you can't bring back to life those wrongfully executed. It's much worse to execute a innocent man then to let a guilty one go free.
This is a replica of the gas chamber at San Quentin. Mr. Wise was only permitted to film exteriors of the prison. Mr. Wise wanted to show an execution in an accurate way. He succeeded I think.
Montgomery Mall This may be a replica, but its the most accurate replica I`ve seen ever. Looking at the real photos of the gas chamber at San Quentin this was spot on. It also was very detailed in showing them prepare the gas chamber. The only thing not accurate was how the execution most likely looked. From all me reading its not pleasant at all.
Robert Wise went to San Quentin and photographed and measured the gas chamber and recorded the sound of the door opening and closing. The set was very accurate in detail. Also, Susan Hayward went to San Quentin and spent a night in the same cell Barbara Graham was housed in and then she went through a "mock" execution herself. These are two important reasons this scene had such an impact.
I have published my novel on Amazon Kindle and it is title "Sentence of Death." I have been working on it since 1987 and it deals with the execution of an innocent woman in the gas chamber.
In my novel the young woman who is executed is the victim. She is framed for the murder of her mother by her stepfather's mistress and the prosecutor aids in the crime and framing of the innocent girl. It is fiction. It is on Amazon Kindle now and will soon be in print.
+jedediahbc I wrote a novel, which means fiction and if you have a law degree you should know what fiction means. By the way, there are innocent people in prison and on death row, even if it is a small percentage.
WHAT A GAS THAT WAS! Notice it was only many men who got to "watch the fun of Justice" while their wasn't even a single female guard in sight (And perhaps a few were closet misogynists.) And no prision uniform but jewelry allowed while she wore a skirt suit? "Gimmie a (prision) break!" (I bet a few GOP viewers wished that were Hillary!)
San Quentin allowed women to wear anything they wanted in the gas chamber. Men were given a white shirt and some kind of pants. I guess wearing a prison uniform would be an added indignity to having a bunch of people watch you die, including a bunch of people who want you dead. There are relatives of the victims there and prosecuting attorneys. Clothes were burned afterward.
A highly fictionalized account of the Barbara Graham murder case. Directed by Robert Wise. Earned an Oscar for Best Actress for Susan Hayward. The Johnny Mandel score was sensational. Performed by Gerry Mulligan, who also appears briefly in the film.
Wow, that was harsh. I'll never forget seeing that movie in the early 60's. Scared the shit out of me then, and I watch it now, that old can't breath feeling comes right back. Very graphic, when you really think about what she's feeling. Shit...
I could sware that I saw this scene a long time ago and some things were different. I have ask others and they agree. In it she was wearing a dress and black pumps. Also she took her shoes off instead of refusing to. Does anyone else remember seeing it this way?
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid....scared the living daylights out of me
@@handle8681well...then you Are too young to watch this
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Nah he older then you this reply was ten years ago clearly older than you
@@Drummer81able nah, this was 10years ago. He has to be older then you.
Susan Hayward was one of the most insightful brilliant actresses - where she got the insight to get that performance is a gift. No-one could method-act that. A genius and deserved every inch of the Academy Award she got for that.
No doubt.
And Susan thought Graham was as guilty as hell. This was a horrifying scene, and Susan deserved the Oscar she got. However, Graham got exactly what she deserved.
Woman goes to execution in her high heels, very classy 😎
"Ummmm....y'all can just keep the sleep mask."
Yes, she would have to part with it after that. You wouldn't want something covered with rat poison on your face. 😳
No matter how many times I've seen this, it still has the same emotional impact.
I was so emotional when I seen this I remember when I watched it as a child and couldn’t wait to see it as an adult I looked it up until I found it in the same old thing tears just dripping down. Susan Hayward was a fabulous actress in this movie♥️
Susan Hayward's greatest performance on screen. Certainly worthy of an Oscar. I saw this film when I was 20 yrs old and I will never forget after the end I ran out of the theater in tears.
What was she guilty of in the screenplay?
@@verymozart murder
@@verymozart--She and two thugs killed a disabled woman in her home trying to get some supposed hidden money. The thugs brought Barbara along to get the woman to open the door "to use the telephone to call the auto club" or tow truck or ride home or something.
Susan Hayward played the hell out of this role. This was a much deserved Oscar!!!!
I don’t always bring my sleep mask to work, but when I do...
LoL
🤣😂
I get executed
Imagine someone volunteering to wear a mask. How un American.
@@GD-me2lv - What? Are you one of those people that think all Americans are corageous, all Germans are nazis, all Japanese are bad ? That's what movies always showed us, but not real at all.
"How do you know?"
Damn.....
Those are actually some of the last words she said before she died. Look her up on Wikipedia - BARBARA GRAHAM.
@@patrickdamore5821 i thought it was 'How the hell would you know that'?
Hallo, ich bin German 1960 geb.Ich kann noch keine 10Jahre alt gewesen sein, als dieser Film im Sonntags Nachmittagsprogramm war und ich ihn mit meiner Mutter sah, die kaum Gefühl hatte, weil sie ein Bombentrümmer Kind war .Ich erinnere aber noch sehr gut wie schockiert ich war und leise weinte . Ich habe wegen diesem Film verstanden, als ich in der Schule auf riesiger Leinwand von unserem Klassenlehrer den Film mit den mächtigen Leichenbergen gesehen habe . Manche von uns sind raus gelaufen . Ich dachte das ich nun gesehen hatte, wie es ist im Gas zu sterben. Kindern sowas zu zeigen ist ein Verbrechen . Wenn eine Idee sichtbar wird, setzt sie irgend jemand immer um :-(((
Wer abscheuliches tun will holt sich andere Leute nur dazu, um seine eine eigene Schuld zu teilen und Anderen Angst und Schuldgefühle zu machen . Ein Mord und eine Hinrichtung sind mehr als 2 Tote.Jeder Zuschauer muss auch damit leben . Jeder de er weis muss damit leben und es macht Selbsthass und Hass .Das ist kein Mörder wert
Die Menschen müssen das sehen, damit sie verstehen, dass ihre Vorfahren Verbrecher sind und sicherstellen, dass es nicht nochmal passiert.
Susan Hayward, wonderful actress ! I loved this movie.
I loved Hayward in 'Valley of the Dolls,' 'With a Song in my heart,' 'Backstreet' and her last TV role "Say Goodbye Maggie Cole." She died shortly thereafter in her 50's dying from Brain Cancer. Wonderful actress!
May I know the name of the movie please ?
@@bharadwaj25 - I believe the English title is "I want to live" . I watched it in a Spanish speaking country and there it was called "The one who didn't want to die" (La que no quería morir). It was filmed in 1958.
@@14Aymara : Thanks 👍
@@14Aymara-- I wonder why it wasn't exactly translated to Quiero vivir.
For a second there I thought this was real.🔥🙌 I love the actress!
Yep
I need to look after this because of an essay and I have this weird feeling of pressure on my chest when I see these things
You get used to it
Just think . . . eight years later director Robert Wise was filming Julie Andrews twirling atop the Alps!
Interesting fact: hydrogen cyanide condenses to a liquid at 78 degrees F. So the gas chamber always has to be kept at well over 80 degrees inside, otherwise the hydrogen cyanide will "rain out" onto the floor as a liquid.
pourquoi pas le zyklon des nazis? Tu t'es échappé en 45 de l'Allemagne Pointy le boche!
@@sirius-petrusse5716 Nazis?
@@sirius-petrusse5716--I've lived in California all my life. We DO use Zyklon B. We just call it something else. :) It's only used on the worst murderers. There are some evil people whose crimes make them not deserving to live.
That was true of the first makeshift gas chamber Nevada used because they didn’t use cyanide eggs mixed with sulfuric acid but I’m not sure that is the case with this type of gas chamber. That gas chamber used liquid cyanide pumped to a device that converted the liquid to a mist that would instantly vaporize if the air temps are warm enough which they weren’t on the day of the first lethal gas execution
God this would have been very shocking for its time.I remember reading that the director spent time at San Quentin watching an execution and learning about the preparation of an execution this way.The clock handle counting down and the clinical feel made this scene quite chilling to watch.
hey said that Barbara replied "How the hell would you know" instead. The capt. being 84 years old at one point in time remembers this conversation and he said "What could I say? She was right" ...So sad:(
They left the word "hell" out the quote because of ridiculous fundamentalist puritan movie censorship ideals.
Amazing performance from Susan Hayward.
I Want To Live! is indeed Susan Hayward at her finest - no question about that. The Oscar for Best Actress was well deserved. Incidentally, TCM had the movie on the day of the 83rd Academy Awards telecast.
I know out there that there is a 1983 TV movie remake, but it does not come close. I feel that a remake of the classic 1958 version of I Want To Live! is long overdue.
Thank you for your reply. Truly, the producer went to extraordinary measures. I am too-well-aware of the exact layout of the SQ gas chamber execution assembly. I've looked at the blueprints. I've looked at the various iterations of the mesh chairs, inside the gas chamber. I've seen many pictures of the gallery area and the anteroom. The set for this movie was so exact -- so exact -- that it even fooled me. Lastly, S. Hayward deserved an oscar for her stunning performance.
Imagine what that must have cost. I think it was used for other movies and TV though.
It was around the point when they started “staying” the execution that I literally had to pause and question whether this was a horror movie and not just a drama. Susan Hayward was iconic in this role!
I saw this on TV when I was a kid, in the '60's. It scared the bejesus out of me then, and still does today.
Do you recall another movie where an innocent (man, I think) was in jail, and a woman was trying to prove his innocence and as you came running to the prison with the proof they'd already gassed him? Honestly, I can't remember if that was a real movie or a nightmare I had after seeing this movie.
Stanley Costello was your day and you got a lot to say to him so he was just saying he had to birthday fantasy handcuff me. No escape. A men who have wrestling scissor hold. Xxxxx
Wheres the whole movie
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Stanley Costello crist u are fucking old,wtf are u doing in the internet grandpa ? Lol
She certainly made that experience look way more pleasant than how it actually is.
I'll use a line from her scene: "How do you know?"
All this mythology about cyanide being quick & painless is stupid. Certainly it's quick, as it interferes w/cellular respiration (in essence, it keeps oxygen from being converted to energy), but "painless"? As the Brits say, "codswallop!"
Each cell literally "starves" when cyanide chokes off the ability to make energy. Writ large, it triggers the pain/fear reflex which gets the victim to try & escape.a toxic situation. At "best", the condemned loses consciousness in approximately 2-10 minutes, but almost all of that time is spent trying to escape & in agony. Pretty dangerous to the witnesses too, as the hatch & window gaskets aren't 100% sealed. A witness could easily be gassed themselves.
In short, execution by gas is yet another exercise in BS. Some death penalty states are looking at nitrogen or inert gas hypoxia as an alternative. Certainly, it holds promise, but it's years away. It also ducks the main concerns; there's no absolutely "humane" execution method (which, to be honest, doesn't really bother me) & the legal system is defective. Even today, it's far too easy to kill someone for a particular crime they DIDN'T do.
@@scotcarr3390 you are right about the physiology but totally wrong about any (physical) danger to witnesses.
The seals and the chamber are massively over engineered, regularly maintained, tested prior to every execution, and should they still somehow fail gas will still not leak out, because the air in the chamber is held below ambient atmospheric pressure , meaning that air will leak _in_ not out, that is the purpose of the liquid column shown at 3:06, it measures differential pressure.
Should the unthinkable happen, the victim(s) would be administered the cyanide antidote injection which quickly reverses the effect.
So don't worry about that.
Forest Denizen so if that’s the case, why didn’t Barb get the antidote?
By all accounts she died pretty quickly. This isnt always the case though.
I saw that movie when it first came out and I was a little girl and it was a haunting movie.
@deivette Yes, the shot at 5:27 shows the roof of the chamber. The roof is sort of cone-shaped, actually made up of 8 triangular pieces. The thing at the very top (above the light fixture in the shot) is the chamber's exhaust valve. It's just a big metal disk, which works like a chimney damper. It's connected to a blower that sits on top of the chamber, which ventilates the gas to the outdoors. At 3:04 the guard pulls a lever to open the valve, and at 3:07 he checks pressure in the chamber.
This was one of my mom’s favorite movies. I can’t count the number of times that we’d stay up late together watching this movie. It was so scary to watch her being escorted into the gas chamber…knowing what was about to happen to her. Chills.
Considering this is a film from the 1950s it doesn't pull any punches with this scene.The preparation and the countdown to the execution is chilling.
Don't forget the director is ROBERT WISE of SOUND OF MUSIC fame . A very able movie man .
This is beyond human.
Wow. She even gets a goodbye from Mr. Milburn Drysdale, the owner of the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
I saw this as a kid. Never forgot it. When she said @“how do you know?” It was haunting ....still today.
Great soundtrack with Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis
The deputy district attorney said he stood right by the window of the gas chamber and watched Barbra Graham die. He said she died hard spewing saliva from her mouth "like a spray", and drooling off her chin. He said he did the same a few hours later when Santo and Perkins were gassed. He said Mabel Monohan died hard also. She was beaten about the face with a pistol and the cause of death was strangulation. I suspect she was beaten so badly because they were tying to get her to reveal where money or valuables where hidden. There is a pretty sad picture of Graham holding her young son Tommy, just before she is executed.
Thank you for sharing that
Take a deep breath when you hear the bassoon.
1:30 John Marley, famous for the horse head scene in The Godfather. Should have given Johnny Fontane that part in your movie!
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Barbaric.
Yes, I read somewhere that the movie's director had witnessed a real execution at San Quentin, so knew exactly what happens, but he said he chose to show just a hint of the actual effects on the inmate. In that era, I suppose a movie simply wouldn't be allowed to present such graphic detail.
I LOVED the fifties. I am a babyboomer. Born in 1950. Went through life listening to rock and roll as it started.
I think I’ll sleep with my eyes open tonight
Clearly explained how to make human suffer the most before dying.
Thank you for this interesting information...The death scene was horrifying....it looked so real....great acting for Miss Hayward.
Susan Hayward was a great actress.
@Voozun444
Same. Finally decided to go looking for the name of the movie after it started to drive me nuts. It's interesting to go back and rediscover all those things that influenced you as a child.
4:45
yeah right!
it was THAT easy and painless?
Actually if you don't hold your breath and if you breathe normally cyanide gas is quick and almost painless
How would you know?
It could not be painless. It bring a healthy human to death by suffocating. Perverse.
@@Zaddexx bullshite
@@Zaddexx lol... If you call thrashing around in agony desperately gasping for breath painless...
This is a good depiction of the procedure for an American gas chamber execution. Another scene shows the preparation of the chemicals which produce deadly gas. BTW, most of the chambers were made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. - look them up. The San Quentin chamber even had their red oval logo on the door!
Is there a similarity to the gas the nazis used?
I saw this movie as a Kid and she deserved the Academy Award for this movie but in real life of this woman she was innocent...it was her boyfriend that committed this crime and she died for it....So Sad...
In real life she was guilty as hell. This movie is a highly fictionalized account of the matter and a piece of effective anti-DP propaganda. She was one of three people who broke into the home of a 64 year old widow and bludgeoned and suffocated her to death because they thought she had money and jewelry in the house.
There was money in the house and they missed getting it. It's pretty clear ghrahm was involved.
The incomparable Susan Hayward. Can anyone name a more compelling performance than this one? It's the stuff of which nightmares are unavoidable.
Sondra R.
Sondra R. Pi
Worthy of The Oscar. Powerful performance.
Hmmm SH or Lindsay Wagner?
She's awesome
Going out in style.
How it feels to chew 5 gum
Simulate your senses
It is a type of barometer that measrues the air tightness of the chamber to make sure it is sealed properly.
Also it reduces airpressure inside chamber forcing executee to take deeper inhales of gas.
I read about the real Barbara Graham. She did have a hard life but she also brutally killed the lady she and the two guys were robbing.
Murderers on death row always go through multiple appeals to save their lives BUT THE VICTIM ALWAYS GETS THE DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT APPEAL.
Maldives.
الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام
اي والله
اين الذي تتكلم عن حقوق الإنسان
For all the people saying this execution is too peaceful to be realistic, do you really think they would expose Miss Hayward to real cyanide? Also, in the 50s people were less desensitised to be violence, so I don't think they would have gone to see a movie with someone writing in agony for 5-7 minutes.
they witnessed the war and fucking holocaust itself a few years prior, they've seen more violence and agony than probably any other generation in history
Obviously a movie. Very still camera work and multiple camera angles of certain scenes.
Very sad. Great actress.
Oi
So haunting love her
2:10 Getting Strapped, getting clamped.
Marmot J. Marmot no....
This is a shocking experience
I happen to think Susan's blank stare at 47 seconds in is the reason she won the Oscar for this film. It really said it all. Tired Acceptance.
Susan Hayward was a great actress. I saw the movie a long time ago, based on a true story, Hollywood did scramble some facts, aka, changed the story a little bit. The real Barbra Graham was not the innocent the movie protraid her to be. Barbra did everything she was big enough to do.
And more. When her thug partners kidnapped and killed a witness, she knew about it and told an undercover cop that she laughed every time she heard that the witness was being hidden by the police. I wonder if she knew about the other murders these men did, including a whole family with three children.
Dude's reading a book? That's cold blooded.
Its the bible
"This is more moving then Susan Hayward's climatic speech in I Want to Live!"
"You're just ready to fly right out of here aren't ya?"
"Well excuse me for living, Anita Bryant!"
Haaaaaa Golden Girls!!!!....And if u say something smart I'm gonna slap you silly
Its acid that flows into a container under the seat into which they drop pellets that mixes with the acid to produce the gas.
@CondemnedGirl
Yes you're right. Thanks.
I think at 3.04 he "closes" the valve and pressures the chamber to test the air(gas) tightness. Don't want to kill the spectators!
You seem to have good technical knowledge. Are you an engineer?
What were you condemned for?
What's the outcome likely to be?
you alive?
Saw this movie on tv when I was 11 or so. Really scared me to think of dying that way.
It's supposed to scare you. Deterrent is part of capital punishment.
Only works on people with the mental capacity to plan ahead, which is why it is considered unfair for many black inmates (read the study where children get a treat now, or two if they wait a while - black children almost always choose immediate gratification, where other races wait a while and get an extra reward .)
@@forestdenizen6497--The range of people with IQs between average and mentally retarded are the ones who do the most screw-ups. Having children without money or a husband, getting multiple girls pregnant, dropping out of school, child abuse and neglect, failure to save money for out of the ordinary expenses, becoming drug addicted, keeping dirty disorderly homes, stealing. There are backward places in the world where most of the people are morons who have 6-12 children and live in shacks and starve, and even the rich people don't have fully functioning toilets or drinkable running water.
まってこの映画ずっと探してた！！
山田太郎 なんの映画？
Why RUclips recommended this at 3am lol
This exactly, I was looking at submarines in WW2 and ended up here somehow
I actually searched, believe it or not.
the problem with the death penalty is what do you do when discover the wrong person has been executed ?
Сколько народа пришло смотреть на казнь! Как же, развлечение! Сколько мужиков смотрят как убивают одну женщин!
Mais Alguém Tá Assistindo Em 2018?
2020 vim do futuro
2019
Grausam !Alle schauen zu wie mit viel Aufwand ein Mensch aus dem Leben befördert wird.
最初これ電気ショックかと思った
電気ショックじゃないの？
はやしチェリアン これガスです
verdade
Agora que eu não entendo mais nada dessa porra 😆
She seems to have been given special treatment in terms of her execution outfit i read that those executed in the gas chamber could not wear shoes and stockings and the rest of their clothing was minimal for health and safety of prison staff
I Want to Live! is a 1958 film which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, starring Susan Hayward as Graham. The film earned Hayward a Best Actress Oscar. The execution was part of the movie and not the actually execution. And it is a noted fact that as the real Barbara Graham died in the gas chamber she did scream.
Those Romantic 50s Movie.
Its more than Sure that this is played, a real Execution looks a LITTLE bit different. In Fact the People to cough to Death and scream for sure.
Robert Curtis I didn't mean to say that people should be executed by cyanide in any form. I think it's cruel and unusual punishment. I think the guillotine is probably the least cruel even though it's messy.
you have to have oxygen in your lungs to scream.
Sheriff Gillespie said it best on the TV show In The Heat Of the Night: the only humane way to execute is to tell the person they have been pardoned, then from behind, a bullet to the brain. Think about it - they have a moment of peace, then instantaneous death, no pain.
Bob nagel I think that using a combo of a short and long acting benzo with fentanyl is very painless i know because i intentionally used it on myself to never wake up 2 times only to awake once in the hospital and second time on the bathroom floor and for me it was simply abcense of conciousness i dont even recall becoming sedated , only preparing my syringe and downing pills thats it , but everyone is diff.
Susan Hayward was a combination of great sexy glamour and a great actress. A former co star the great Frederic March said "Every inch of that Woman (Susan) is an actress! Garbo, Hepburn, Stanwyck all admired . Hayward. Director of ' I Want to Live' Robert Wise called Hayward second to Garbo in ability.
This great movie and Ms. Hayward were applauded worldwide.
Ms Hayward won the Oscar and received a curtain call from the Academy for the Win, something I have seen only that once
RIP Susan
When you hear the pellets drop, count to 10, and take a deep breath, it's easier that way. How do you know? lol
She actually said "how the hell do you know?"
I was quoting what she said in the movie, but if you want to be exact, in real life, she was quoted as saying, "How the hell do you know, you silly rascal."
2021
Little know fact: the primary antidote for cyanide poisoning is an intravenous solution of Vitamin B12.
Oh nevermind, spoke too soon. It has to be a particular form of B12 however.
Another antidote is sodium thiosulphite, combined with amyl nitrite (poppers.)
Some types of B12 contain cyanide already.
To quote Susan Hayward: "How would you know?"
The Godfather, The Beverly Hillbillys, The Twilight Zone, Little house on the praire....the late great SUSAN HAYWARD...and a bunch of other wonderful actors.
This scene is from "The Beverly Hillbillies?!" Which episode?
Arggg. A simpler method-painless-is a 10000 watt microwave emitter over the head. In 3 seconds at that power level the brain reaches 125° & you feel no pain. at 4-5 seconds- your brain is 145° & in 15 seconds it's 300° & you're ready to serve.
There is still an 8th Amendment. Despite tRump's disturbing inclination towards barbarity.
Gary Shields
Ouch... First...how do you know, Second what about at 1 and 2 seconds...?
How do you know there is no pain, has anybody live to tell you. Why don't you be a guinea pig and try your 10000 watt microwave for 3 seconds and let us know how it turns out.
I had heard somewhere years ago they had a similar device In the Soviet Union they used to kill enemy agents and foreign dignitaries-particularly from the United States. They would all gather in the “room,” the Russians would leave, locking the victims inside, and then nuke them till they literally exploded.
Susan Hayward-Beautiful woman💕
mr. drysdale from Beverly Hillibies, before his toupee, and the minister from Little House on the Prarie
flon57 That would be Raymond Bailey and Dabbs Greer.
The Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills!
flon57 and captain stubing from love boat when he still had hair
Model airplanes
flon57 also see the actor from two star trek tos episodes...the cage and return of the archons!!
Its a air pressure gauge to make sure the chamber is air tight.
0:45
Is it just me or does Susan Hayward kinda looks like Jennifer Lawrence? Just me? Okay :)
kinda
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No, Jennifer Lawrence looks like Susan Hayward.
LOL
Not for long....
الحمد لله على نعمة الاسلامً
yea i happen to have a mask handy!
@26highstreet Yeah, and in time, you might be able to convict them later, but you can't bring back to life those wrongfully executed. It's much worse to execute a innocent man then to let a guilty one go free.
my bad, i didn't see your correction, but u are right, that is the guy who played the older paul in The Green Mile
Yeah!! The older Paul Edgecombe from Cold Mountain Prison.
This is a replica of the gas chamber at San Quentin. Mr. Wise was only permitted to film exteriors of the prison. Mr. Wise wanted to show an execution in an accurate way. He succeeded I think.
Montgomery Mall This may be a replica, but its the most accurate replica I`ve seen ever. Looking at the real photos of the gas chamber at San Quentin this was spot on. It also was very detailed in showing them prepare the gas chamber. The only thing not accurate was how the execution most likely looked. From all me reading its not pleasant at all.
Montgomery Mall Its one of the best replicas I`ve ever seen. Todays directors dont put the effort into making things look realistic
Montgomery Mall Now the movie The Chamber did a real good good replicating the Mississippi gas chamber
I didn`t know that. Still seems to be in working order.
Robert Wise went to San Quentin and photographed and measured the gas chamber and recorded the sound of the door opening and closing. The set was very accurate in detail. Also, Susan Hayward went to San Quentin and spent a night in the same cell Barbara Graham was housed in and then she went through a "mock" execution herself. These are two important reasons this scene had such an impact.
I saw this movie, it was good. Much more to the movie than just this ending scene.
What Is the name of the movie
I have published my novel on Amazon Kindle and it is title "Sentence of Death." I have been working on it since 1987 and it deals with the execution of an innocent woman in the gas chamber.
+carsmasher There is so much concern for murderers and of course occasionally an innocent person is convicted. How about the poor victims ?
In my novel the young woman who is executed is the victim. She is framed for the murder of her mother by her stepfather's mistress and the prosecutor aids in the crime and framing of the innocent girl. It is fiction. It is on Amazon Kindle now and will soon be in print.
Why a novel - why not deal with reality, besides the gas chamber hasn't been used in years.
+carsmasher That doesn't happen in real life I use to work as a deputy District Attorney!
+jedediahbc I wrote a novel, which means fiction and if you have a law degree you should know what fiction means. By the way, there are innocent people in prison and on death row, even if it is a small percentage.
RIP
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We need to show this to anyone who does not take the Pfizer vaccine.
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WHAT A GAS THAT WAS! Notice it was only many men who got to "watch the fun of Justice" while their wasn't even a single female guard in sight (And perhaps a few were closet misogynists.) And no prision uniform but jewelry allowed while she wore a skirt suit? "Gimmie a (prision) break!" (I bet a few GOP viewers wished that were Hillary!)
marvin watkins Moron.
Réveilles toi le film est fini!
San Quentin allowed women to wear anything they wanted in the gas chamber. Men were given a white shirt and some kind of pants. I guess wearing a prison uniform would be an added indignity to having a bunch of people watch you die, including a bunch of people who want you dead. There are relatives of the victims there and prosecuting attorneys. Clothes were burned afterward.
GOD OH GOD
A highly fictionalized account of the Barbara Graham murder case. Directed by Robert Wise. Earned an Oscar for Best Actress for Susan Hayward. The Johnny Mandel score was sensational. Performed by Gerry Mulligan, who also appears briefly in the film.
drosh413 david oooh you're so edgy
Wow, that was harsh. I'll never forget seeing that movie in the early 60's. Scared the shit out of me then, and I watch it now, that old can't breath feeling comes right back. Very graphic, when you really think about what she's feeling. Shit...
Both of us know you’re not that old
Was passiert in diesem Raum ?
Bisschen spät die Antwort, aber in dem Raum wird ein bestimmtes Gas versprüht, dass dir normalerweise schmerzhaft die Atemwege Lunge und so verätzt.
I could sware that I saw this scene a long time ago and some things were different. I have ask others and they agree. In it she was wearing a dress and black pumps. Also she took her shoes off instead of refusing to. Does anyone else remember seeing it this way?