Five Minutes to Live (1961)
Note: this print runs 74 minutes against a recorded 80 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forrester, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback, Ron Howard, Merle Travis, Norma Varden
Directed by Bill Karn
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.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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