Five minutes left to live
| Movie | |
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| German title | Five minutes left to live |
| Original title | Five Minutes to Live since 1966: Door-to-Door Maniac |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bill Karn |
| script | Cay Forrester |
| production | James Ellsworth |
| music | Gene Kauer |
| camera | Carl Guthrie |
| cut | Donald Nosseck |
| occupation | |
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Five minutes to live (Original title: Five Minutes To Live ) is an American film made in 1961 by Bill Karn with Johnny Cash . The film is based on a story by Palmer Thompson . For its re-performance in 1966, the original title was changed to Door-to-Door Maniac .
action
The cold-blooded gangster Johnny Cabot is ambushed by the police during a robbery with his buddy Pete. After Pete shot one of the two policemen and wounded the second, he was fatally hit himself. Cabot finally shoots the policeman injured by Pete by emptying his entire magazine and escaping. Cabot and his girlfriend Doris find shelter in a motel in the small town of Camellia Gardens, 2,000 miles from New Jersey.
Max, the owner of the local bowling alley, is supposed to find a reliable partner for a planned robbery for the criminal Fred Dorella. He calls Johnny and Doris to arrange a meeting. When Fred reveals Johnny's friend Doris to be an old acquaintance, whom he has already met under a different name, Johnny orders Doris to wait in the car and discusses his plan with Fred alone. Dorella plans to have Johnny Nancy, the wife of bank vice director Kenneth Wilson, hostage while he is using it to blackmail Wilson at the bank.
Johnny tells Doris about the plan at the motel. Since he has discovered information about her past in the meantime, he shoots her while she looks forward to the upcoming prey. Johnny and Fred spy on the Wilson family's daily routine. After Kenneth drives to work and the son Bobby goes to school, Johnny takes the wife off guard with gun violence and keeps her prisoner in her own house.
Dorella and Max drive to the bank, Max is given the Wilson's phone number and instructions to call the number as soon as he leaves the bank. With that, Max waits at a telephone booth in front of the bank while Fred enters the bank. Dorella lets herself be taken to Wilson's office on the pretext of taking out a loan and demands a ransom of $ 70,000 in cash. As proof of the hostage situation, he has Wilson call home and confirm the facts from his wife and Johnny. Dorella gives Wilson 5 minutes to get the money before Nancy is shot if he doesn't call Johnny within the time to confirm receipt of the money. Kenneth's lover Ellen calls the bank by chance, but is put off by Wilson. As a result, Kenneth says that he was planning to leave his wife anyway, and that Dorella would do him a favor by killing his wife. He plans to travel to Las Vegas with Ellen and marry her too. Dorella, however, does not trust the bank director to be so cold-blooded. Dorella is right, Wilson agrees to the plan, and Dorella calls Johnny to restart the clock.
Nancy's rape in her own home by Johnny is only prevented at the same time by the accidentally triggered oven alarm.
An attentive bank employee observes the strange situation when Wilson goes to the vault with Dorella to pay out the money. Finally, he identifies Dorella on the basis of an existing profile. The clerk tries to hold Dorella down. Wilson, in a panic about the running out of time, helps Dorella to escape. An employee raises the alarm because of the situation, the fleeing Dorella is held by a passerby and knocked down by another bank employee. Max flees when he hears the alarm. After a call from the chairman of the Priscilla neighborhood association, Johnny grants Nancy an extra minute of life because no one could call. At that moment the son Bobby comes home to eat. Johnny is desperate because he had a conscience about the child before the coup began. Meanwhile a police car has arrived, Johnny takes Bobby hostage and escapes. During an exchange of fire, Johnny kills one of the two policemen, who fires another shot while he is dying and obviously hits Bobby. This situation confuses Johnny and makes him careless. He is finally shot by the second policeman.
However, like on TV, Bobby only faked the hit and is unharmed. The Wilsons are overjoyed on the phone and Kenneth promises his wife to go to Las Vegas on vacation. In addition, he assures her eternal love. The conversation is overheard by Ellen, who was accidentally put on the line and tried to call her lover back. On the drive to Las Vegas, Kenneth says that he asked Priscilla to call to give the cops a little more time. The film is told from the point of view of Fred Dorella, which he had recorded during interrogation with the police.
background
Cash sings the title track and Travis plays the guitar.
The Five Minutes To Live It premiered in Richmond on November 21, 1960 , but didn't hit US cinemas until 1961. The German theatrical release was on December 17, 1965.
In 2012 Jan de Bont announced the work on a remake. This has not yet been implemented (as of November 2018).
Web links
- Five minutes to live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Five minutes left to live in the online film database
- Film review on der-film-Noir.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for five minutes left to live . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 34 362 V).
- ^ Five Minutes to Live (1960). In: American Film Institute . Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Another five minutes to live. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ 5 minutes to live. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Director Jan de Bont is shooting “Five Minutes to Live” - Remake , Kino.de, January 23, 2012