Five Minutes to Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)

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5	Listal rating
6.1	IMDB rating

Release date : 17 December 1965

Thriller (1), Black And White (1), Bank Robbery (1), Double Feature (1), Watch Online (1)

Description

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 unt 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, 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, 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. ... (more)

Directed by

Bill Karn

Starring (View all) :

Johnny Cabot

Ken Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Ellen Harcourt

Fred Dorella

Bobby

Max

Doris Johnson

Priscilla

Mr. Johnson

Written by (View all) :

Cay Forrester

Palmer Thompson

(story)

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Asho

Cheesy, but decent

Posted : 3 years, 2 months ago at Oct 3 12:18

I was really excited when I found this dvd in my local library, I was expecting a great cowboy movie with Johnny Cash, and some great music. I was disappointed when I realised that this was not, in fact, a cowboy movie, but just an old cheesy black and white movie about a bank robbing. I loved the story, even though the acting wasn't great (if Cash hadn't been on amphetamines it wouldn't've been half as good as it is, though), and the ending sucked. The banker should've just ran off with his "other woman" and left his wife to die. Then it would've gotten ten stars.

Rating : 5/10

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