Five Minutes to Live

Crime thriller starring Johnny Cash. The film is narrated in flashback by would-be bank robber Fred Dorella (Vic Tayback). Fred's simple plan is to extort money from bank manager Ken Wilson (Donald Woods) by hiring a hard-up hood, Johnny Cabot (Cash) to hold Wilson's wife hostage and threaten her with execution.

But what Fred hasn't counted on is that the Wilson home is far from a happy one, and that Wilson had made plans to leave his wife and run away with a co-worker that very evening. Cabot has given Wilson five minutes to choose whether his wife will live or die...