Door-to-Door Maniac ( Five Minutes to Live ) ( Last Blood )

Door-to-Door Maniac (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Five Minutes to Live
Alternate Title: Last Blood
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Bill Karn

Written By:
Bill Karn
Cay Forrester
Robert L. Joseph

Actors:
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 (as Ronnie Howard)
Merle Travis ..... Max
Midge Ware ..... Doris Johnson
Norma Varden ..... Priscilla
Leslie Kimmell ..... Mr. Johnson (as Leslie Kimmel)
Marge Waller ..... Secretary
Patricia Lynn ..... Gert
Frances Flower ..... Irma
Hanna Landy ..... Carol
Cynthia Flower ..... Girl Bowling

Synopsis:

Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later rereleased as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred (Tayback) 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 (Cash) 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 (Woods) leaves for the bank and their young son (Howard) heads off to school. Posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, he forces his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Forrester) 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 (Mason), 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.

It could be your street...your house...your life!
The film Johnny Cash didn't want you to see!
This classic crime noir thriller stars country music legend Johnny Cash (in his film debut) as a violent, guitar playing ex-con who kidnaps the wife of the bank's vice-president and holds her for ransom.
Featuring an early performance from eight year-old Ron Howard (director of A Beautiful Mind)

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 November, 2006.

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