{"id":38704,"date":"2025-04-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38704"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:28:32","slug":"5-minutes-to-live-aka-door-to-door-maniac-1961-starring-johnny-cash-vic-tayback-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38704","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;5 Minutes to Live&#8221; aka &#8220;Door-to-Door Maniac&#8221; (1961) starring Johnny Cash &amp; Vic Tayback \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z040825_5minstolive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>5 Minutes to Live<\/i><\/strong> aka <em><strong>Door-to-Door Maniac <\/strong><\/em>(1961)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Bill Karn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0<strong> Cay Forrester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Johnny Cash, Donald Woods<\/strong><strong>, Cay Forester, Midge Ware, Merle Travis, Vic Tayback, Norma Varden, Hanna Landy, Howard Wright <\/strong>and <strong>Ron Howard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Introducing JOHNNY CASH, America&#8217;s top-recording star, as a lusty, romantic, guitar singing powerhouse <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fred Dorella and cold-blooded killer Johnny Cabot have a fool-proof way to rob a bank.\u00a0 Johnny will take the bank Vice-president&#8217;s wife, Nancy hostage.\u00a0 If the bank&#8217;s VP gives Fred $70k, Fred will call Johnny who will release Nancy.\u00a0 If the bank&#8217;s VP doesn&#8217;t turn over the cash, Fred will call Johnny who will kill Nancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What Fred and Johnny didn&#8217;t count on, is the bank&#8217;s VP having an affair.\u00a0 If the crooks kill his wife, he&#8217;ll be free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>5 Minutes to Live\u00a0<\/em>was rereleased in 1966 as <em>Door-to-Door Maniac<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Cay Forester, the female lead, wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnny Cash (in his film debut) teamed with Vic Tayback (of the television comedy Alice fame) as the bank robbers.\u00a0 Ronnie Howard who played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show plays the son of bank vice president.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy low budget crime thrillers, then give <em>5 Minutes to Live<\/em> a shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>5 Minutes to Live<\/i> aka Door-to-Door Maniac (1961) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z040825_5minstolive2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Minutes to Live aka Door-to-Door Maniac (1961) Director:\u00a0 Bill Karn Screenplay:\u00a0 Cay Forrester Stars: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38705,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38704\/revisions\/38705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}