Five Minutes to Live

Five Minutes to Live
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBill Karn
Screenplay byCay Forrester
Story byPalmer Thompson
Produced byJames Ellsworth
Ludlow Flower
StarringJohnny Cash
Donald Woods
Cay Forrester
Pamela Mason
Vic Tayback
CinematographyCarl E. Guthrie
Edited byDonald Nosseck
Production
company
Somera Productions-Flower Film Productions
Distributed bySutton Pictures
Release date
  • December 7, 1961 (1961-12-07) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300,000
Box office$5,655,000
Five Minutes To Live

Five Minutes to Live is a 1961 American neo-noir[1] crime film directed by Bill Karn. It was re-titled Door-to-Door Maniac for an American International Pictures re-release in 1966. The film stars Johnny Cash, who wrote and sang the title song, and Cay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced.[2]

Five Minutes to Live was one of only two theatrical film roles in which Cash performed on-screen in his career, A Gunfight, ten years later, being the other. While he appeared in The Road to Nashville in 1967, he played himself in a musical. Cash would appear in several made-for-television films and do some voice-over work in film later in his career.

  1. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; Ursini, James; Porfirio, Robert (2010). Film Noir: The Encyclopaedia. Overlook Duckworth (New York). ISBN 978-1-59020-144-2.
  2. ^ Five Minutes To Live at IMDb.