''Why Must I Die?'' is a 1960 American

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directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Terry Moore and Debra Paget. It was released by

American International Pictures American International Pictures (AIP) is an American motion picture production label of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In its original operating period, AIP was an independent film production and distribution company known for producing and releasing fi ...

as a double feature with '' The Jailbreakers''. This was director Roy Del Ruth's final film.

Plot

Lois King keeps her troubled past from nightclub owner Kenny Randall, who hires her to sing at his club, The Cockatoo, and has fallen in love with her. Lois is blackmailed by Eddie, the ex-partner of her father, Red, who is in prison. Eddie and a female safecracker, Dottie Manson, will see to it that Red's sentence is extended to life unless Lois helps them rob the nightclub. Kenny accidentally comes across the burglars and is killed. Lois finds his body and is arrested and falsely convicted for his murder. Lois is on death row when Dottie is brought to the prison. By the time other inmates can convince Dottie to confess to killing Kenny, the execution has been carried out.

Cast

* Terry Moore as Lois King * Debra Paget as Dottie Manson * Bert Freed as Adler *

Juli Reding Esther Fay Reding Hutner (November 28, 1935 – September 16, 2021), better known as Juli Reding, was an American actress and model, best known for her role in the Bert I. Gordon horror film, '' Tormented'' (1960). Early life Esther Fay ...

as Mitzi * Lionel Ames as Eddie Rainey

References

External links

* {{Roy Del Ruth 1960 films 1960 crime drama films 1960s English-language films American black-and-white films American crime drama films American International Pictures films Films about capital punishment Films directed by Roy Del Ruth Films scored by Richard LaSalle 1960s American films