Murder Ballads

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Fri 30 May 2008 // 19:30 / Cinema

Urban and Eastern presents a night dedicated to film and song celebrating homicide, suicide and infanticide!

Murder BalladsFILM: DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC

The evening starts with a rare opportunity to view DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC (1961) a low budget film with Johnny Cash starring as a killer who serenades his victims.

Cash plays Johnny Cabot who is on the lam after a heist goes wrong. To make things worse he is talked into kidnapping the wife of a bank executive and holding her hostage while her husband transfers the funds to them.

Unfortunately the husband was about to run off with his mistress and Cash would be doing the banker a favour.

Cash serenades his victims with two tunes; "I've Come to Kill" and "Five Minutes to Live", and is brilliantly cold-blooded as the villain. He has wild spurts, where he prances around his prey, spouts Tarantino-like tough talk, and gives out with wonderful eye gestures. Don't miss it.

MUSIC

Following the film a stellar cast of North Eastern talent: Gem Andrews, Fiona Sally Miller, Cornshed Sisters, Abby Mitchell and the Dust Bowl Brothers, OCDC, and Rebecca Jones.

They will interpret death songs from the Appalachians, the Cheviots and the streets of downtown Nashville...