{"id":825,"date":"2016-10-10T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=825"},"modified":"2016-10-10T04:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:18:53","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-five-minutes-to-live-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: \u201cFive Minutes to Live\u201d (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did <em>Johnny Cash<\/em> have a reputation for being perceived as a lunatic? Because he sure comes off typecast that way in this movie! Already a music sensation when he did this, an insanely inordinate amount of time is spent getting beauty shots of him terrorizing housewife <em>Cay Forrester<\/em>, who also happened to write the screenplay (rape fantasy, anyone?)! Coming off more ham than trained actor just adds to the creepiness &amp; unpredictability, pursing his lips too often as if stalling for time to remember lines, randomly smashing his victim\u2019s belongings with mock gesticulations that are part twitch, part swish, &amp; 100% snotty, contemptuous, &amp; ignorant: a dangerous &amp; volatile combination! When things reach a boiling point he even picks up little <em>Ron Howard<\/em> as a bullet-shield! I wonder how much he was adlibbing! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2005 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201c<em>Cross<\/em> the line!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-826 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"five_minutes_to_live\" width=\"627\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live-675x1024.jpg 675w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live-768x1165.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/five_minutes_to_live.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Johnny Cash have a reputation for being perceived as a lunatic? Because he sure comes off typecast that way in this movie! Already a music sensation when he did this, an insanely inordinate amount of time is spent getting beauty shots of him terrorizing housewife Cay Forrester, who also happened to write the screenplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}