Five Minutes to Live
Five Minutes to Live is a 1961 American crime film. It was retitled DoortoDoor Maniac for a rerelease in 1966. The film stars Johnny Cash and Cay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced.
The film opens on Fred Vic Tayback, sitting in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he has always had a plan for a small town bank robbery. He had teamedup with hardened criminal, Johnny Cabot Johnny Cash to execute his plan. Cabot is to take the wife of the banks vice president hostage. He is to hold her until he gets a call from Fred informing him that they have the ransom money. Cabot watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for work and their son heads off to school. At first, posing as a doortodoor guitar instructor, Cabot works his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson Cay Forrester hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilsons Donald Woods office, and hands him a check for 70,000, informing Wilson that he will withdraw the funds to cover the ransom or his wife will die. He tells Wilson to call home in order to prove that Nancy is being held hostage, and then informs him that if he does not call Cabot back in five minutes that Mrs. Wilson will die. Wilson tells Fred that hes been planning to leave his wife anyway and run off to Las Vegas with his mistress, Ellen Pamela Mason. He tells Fred that he will be doing him a favor by killing his wife. Fred, however, does not believe that Ken will let his wife die. He is proven correct, as time ticks by, Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom. Fred calls Cabot and starts the clock over again. As time ticks away, Fred works on Ken to collect the money so he can leave the bank safely. Meanwhile, at the Wilson house, Cabot is enjoying terrorizing his hostage. Forcing her to listen to him play songs about her impending demise, shooting at her and making sexual advances toward her which she tries to use to aid her escape to no avail. Back at the bank, Fred has been taken down by the police who arrived after someone tripped the silent alarm. As a result, Cabot is getting nervous having not received his expected call from Fred. Suddenly, in walks Little Bob
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