Five Minutes to Live
- Release Date
- December 7, 1961
- Director
- Bill Karn
- Cast
- Johnny Cash , Donald Woods , Cay Forrester , Pamela Mason , Vic Tayback , Ron Howard
- Runtime
- 74
- Main Genre
- Crime
- Writers
- Cay Forrester , Palmer Thompson , Robert L. Joseph
- Tagline
- How could she extend the moments he had given her?
Summary
Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank robbery that goes awry. In his simple plan, he hires a hard-up hood, Johnny Cabot to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. Cabot will hold her until he gets a call alerting him that Fred has been successful in getting ransom money. Cabot waits, and watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for the bank and their young son heads off to school. Posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, he forces his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson's office, and presents his personal check for $70,000, intending that Wilson will withdraw the funds to cover the check as a ransom for his wife. He has Wilson call home to prove that Nancy is being held by the unstable Cabot.
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