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Door-to-Door Maniac / Five Minutes to Live
1961
Actors: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forrester, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback
Director: Bill Karn
Genres: Drama, Music Video & Concerts, Mystery & Suspense

2008 1hr 20min

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 s... more »imple 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, and gives Wilson 5 minutes to make his decision. If Fred fails to call the house back, Cabot is to kill Nancy. Wilson confesses to Fred that he has been planning to run off to Las Vegas with Ellen, the woman he has been having an affair with, and Fred will be doing him a favor by getting rid of Nancy. But as the minutes tick by, Wilson cracks and agrees to give him the money. Fred make the first call to save Nancy. The clock starts ticking again, another 5 minutes, for Fred to collect the money and get out of the bank safely. While Fred is working on Wilson, Nancy is terrorized by Cabot-- manhandled and shot at, invited to slip into something more comfortable (which she does in a futile attempt to distract him) and finally forced to listen to him serenade her with "Five Minutes to Live" and "I've Come to Kill" while he waits for the second call. The call hasn't come as Fred has been overpowered by the police, who were alerted by the bank's silent alarm. Cabot is getting more and more stressed. While worrying about Fred not calling, he is completely thrown by Little Bobby arriving home for lunch just as the police arrive at the Wilson house. Cabot panics, grabs Bobby and runs into the yard under police fire. Bobby fakes his death to save himself, and Cabot is shot by a cop in the yard. Nancy is reunited with her now-contrite husband, who decides he will still go to Las Vegas, but with Nancy. Written by msb/lll

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Actors: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forrester, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback
Director: Bill Karn
Genres: Drama, Music Video & Concerts, Mystery & Suspense
Sub-Genres: Drama, Cash, Johnny, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: A2zcds.com
Format: DVD
DVD Release Date: 11/10/2008
Release Year: 2008
Run Time: 1hr 20min
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0

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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 2/1/2023...

Five Minutes to Live (retitled Door-to-Door Maniac) - Horrible picture and sound quality, plotline and acting. A real bust for the young Johnny Cash!

Michel D. (michelann) from WALNUT GROVE, MO
Reviewed on 3/27/2022...

Johnny Cash was an actor! Not quite of the caliber as his singing talents but he demonstrates in these films that he could be dramatic! By the way, Door-to-Door Maniac and Five Minutes to Live are one and the same movie from 1961! Just renamed. But there is another film on this DVD that is well worth the purchase.... Pride of Jesse Hallum from 1981, also starring Eli Wallach and Brenda Vacarro, displays Johnny's talents in both acting and singing! He is an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky who moves up to Ohio for his daughter who needs surgery. His struggles to find a job, even to renew his expired drivers license, are extremely difficult because he cannot read! Very heartwarming story!