Why Must I Die?

Why Must I Die? (1960)
AIP Production #504

Jeff and Cheryl strap in for an emotional tale about the application (and misapplication) of the death penalty in Why Must I Die.


Original Story by George W. Waters
Screenplay by George W. Waters and Richard Bernstein
Additional Dialogue by Herbert G. Luft
Produced by Richard Bernstein
Directed by Roy Del Ruth

Cast:
Terry Moore as Lois King
Debra Paget as Dottie Manson
Bert Freed as Adler
Juli Reding as Mitzi
Lionel Ames as Eddie Rainey
Richard Le Pore as Sinclair
Sid Melton as Morrie Waltzer
Selette Cole as Peggy Taylor
Dorothy Lovett as Mrs Benson
Phil Harvey as Kenny Randall
Fred Sherman as Red King
Robert Shayne as Charlie Munro
Damian O’Flynn as District Attorney Walter Dennison
Holly Harris as Miss Bradley, the Superintendent
Mark Sheeler as Jim
Jhean Burton as Trixie
Abbagail Shelton as Dawn
Jackie Joseph as Marge Brennan, the Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

A Viscount-Terry Moore Production
An American International Picture

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)