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Genres:
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Crime /
Music /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Bill Karn
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Actors:
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Norma Varden,
Johnny Cash,
Pamela Mason,
Leslie Kimmell,
Merle Travis,
Midge Ware,
Donald Woods,
Cay Forrester,
Vic Tayback,
Ron Howard
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Duration:
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80 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)243.5
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Plot Summary:
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Initially released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Finish, this low-budget crime stagecraft was later re-released as Door-to-Door Fiend. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank robbing that goes awry. In his halfwitted plan, he hires a practical-up hood, Johnny Cabot to enlist the wife of the bank's iniquity president hostage. Cabot will hold her until he gets a call alerting him that Fred has been prosperous in getting ransom money. Cabot waits, and watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves in behalf of the bank and their uninitiated son heads off the mark to secondary.... Posing as a door-to-door guitar docent, he forces his way into the theatre and takes Nancy Wilson gage. At the bank, Fred talks his conduct into Ken Wilson's aid, and presents his bodily check on $70,000, intending that Wilson on withdraw the funds to cover the check up on as a ransom into his better half. He has Wilson dial place to be found that Nancy is being held past the mercurial Cabot, and gives Wilson 5 minutes to estimate his decision. If Fred fails to call the lodge burdening someone, Cabot is to end Nancy. Wilson confesses to Fred that he has been planning to exhaust off to Las Vegas with Ellen, the chambermaid he has been having an issue 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 readies. Fred make the first draw on to recover Nancy. The clock starts ticking again, another 5 minutes, for Fred to collect the bundle and recover 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 divert him) and at length forced to listen to him serenade her with "Five Minutes to Live" and "I've Get possession of to Kill" while he waits for the move call. The telephone call hasn't come as Fred has been overpowered by the police, who were alerted by way of the bank's silent bell. Cabot is getting more and more stressed. While worrying take Fred not calling, he is thrown by Petty Bobby arriving lodgings for lunch objective as the police arrive at the Wilson diet. Cabot panics, grabs Bobby and runs into the yard out of sight police fire. Bobby fakes his death to release himself, and Cabot is shot by a cop in the yard. Nancy is reunited with her now-contrite quiet, who decides he leave still go to Las Vegas, but with Nancy.Read more Less
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