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1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1958
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz
Based on a newspaper article by Edward Montgomery and the letters of Barbara Graham
Includes the original theatrical trailer
Photography, Lionel Lindon; music, John Mandel; editor, William Hornbeck
Susan Hayward (Barbara Graham), Simon Oakland (Ed Montgomery), Virginia Vincent (Peg), Theodore Bikel (Carl Palmberg), Wesley Lau (Henry Graham), Philip Coolidge, Lou Krugman, James Philbrook, Gage Clark, John Marley, Marion Marshall
DVD; mono., Dolby digital; widescreen format
In English, with optional English, Spanish or French subtitles
Closed captioned
Academy Award for Best Actress of 1958: Susan Hayward