Five Minutes to Live
| 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 crime film directed by Bill Karn. It was retitled Door-to-Door Maniac for an American International Pictures rerelease in 1966. The film stars Johnny Cash, in his first theatrical film role, Donald Woods, Vic Tayback, and Cay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced. Cash performed the film's title song, with a guitar solo by Merle Travis, who also appears in the film as Max.