Five Minutes to Live (1961)

Directed by

Bill Karn

Genre

B movie, heist film, flashback film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

G

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A violent criminal posing as a guitar salesman takes a housewife hostage while her husband scrambles to gather ransom money. The film jumps back in time to show how the two men's paths crossed.

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What happens

Five Minutes to Live is a 1961 American neo-noir crime film directed by Bill Karn. It was retitled Door-to-Door Maniac for an American International Pictures rerelease in 1966. The film stars Johnny Cash, in his first theatrical film role, Donald Woods, Vic Tayback, and Cay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced. Cash performed the film's title song, with a guitar solo by Merle Travis, who also appears in the film as Max. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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