Five Minutes to Love
Encyclopedia
Five Minutes to Love is a 1963
American drama film
directed by John Hayes
and starring Rue McClanahan
as Poochie, a woman who lives in a junkyard. The film was critically lambasted, and later picked up by exploitation film
maker Kroger Babb
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under its exploitation title Hollywood After Dark, focusing on McClanahan's roles, as she later gained fame for her work on The Golden Girls
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1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
American drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by John Hayes
John Hayes (director)
John Hayes was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget drive-in B-movie features and later, exploitation films.-Career:...
and starring Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan was an American actress, best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on Maude, Fran Crowley on Mama's Family, and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1987.-Early life:McClanahan was born Eddie Rue...
as Poochie, a woman who lives in a junkyard. The film was critically lambasted, and later picked up by exploitation film
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
maker Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
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Cast
- Rue McClanahanRue McClanahanRue McClanahan was an American actress, best known for her roles on television as Vivian Harmon on Maude, Fran Crowley on Mama's Family, and Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1987.-Early life:McClanahan was born Eddie Rue...
as Sally "Poochie" - King MoodyKing MoodyRobert "King" Moody was an American actor, best known for playing Ronald McDonald in commercials in the 1970s and 1980s...
as Blowhard - Will GregoryWill GregoryWilliam Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...
as Ben - Gaye Gordon as Edna
- Norman Hartweg
- Michael De Carlo
- William Guhl
- Paul Leder as Harry
- Ethlyn De Carlo
- Geraldine Leder as Ben and Edna's Daughter
DVD release
The film was released in 2006 as a double feature with Walk the Angry BeachWalk the Angry Beach
Walk the Angry Beach, also known as Hollywood After Dark and The Unholy Choice, is an exploitation film starring Rue McClanahan as a stripper who aspires to become a movie actress, but ends up being exploited by the industry.-DVD releases:...
under its exploitation title Hollywood After Dark, focusing on McClanahan's roles, as she later gained fame for her work on The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...
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