Five Minutes to Live
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works.
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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.
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- Director
- Bill Karn
- Starring
- Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback, Midge Ware, Ron Howard, Merle Travis
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