| Five Minutes to Live | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Bill Karn |
| Screenplay by | Cay Forrester |
| Story by | Palmer Thompson |
| Produced by | James Ellsworth Ludlow Flower |
| Starring | Johnny Cash Donald Woods Cay Forrester Pamela Mason Vic Tayback |
| Cinematography | Carl E. Guthrie |
| Edited by | Donald Nosseck |
Production company | Somera Productions-Flower Film Productions |
| Distributed by | Sutton Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $300,000 |
| Box office | $5,655,000 |
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.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; Ursini, James; Porfirio, Robert (2010). Film Noir: The Encyclopaedia. Overlook Duckworth (New York). ISBN 978-1-59020-144-2.
- ^ Five Minutes To Live at IMDb.