Five Minutes to Live (1961)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Johnny Cash	...	Johnny Cabot
	Donald Woods	...	Ken Wilson
	Cay Forrester	...	Nancy Wilson (as Cay Forester)
	Pamela Mason	...	Ellen Harcourt
	Vic Tayback	...	Fred Dorella
	Ron Howard	...	Bobby Wilson (as Ronnie Howard)
	Merle Travis	...	Max
	Midge Ware	...	Doris Johnson
	Norma Varden	...	Priscilla Auerbach
	Leslie Kimmell	...	Mr. Johnson (as Leslie Kimmel)
	Marge Waller	...	Secretary
	Patricia Lynn	...	Gert
	Frances Flower	...	Irma
	Hanna Landy	...	Carol
	Cynthia Flower	...	Girl Bowling

Storyline

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... Written by msb/lll  

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