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D.O.A. is a 1950 movie that helped define the film noir genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has murdered him—and why—before he dies.

Plot

The film begins with Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) stumbling into a police station to report a murder: his own. The flashback that follows shows Bigelow's unwise decision to take off for a weekend of partying in San Francisco before settling down to married life with his bride-to-be Paula (Britton). After meeting up with a group of men from a sales convention, Bigelow starts drinking and he ends up with the wrong crowd at a jazz club. When he awakes the next morning, he not only has a hangover - he finds he's been poisoned and has a week to live. Bigelow then sets out to try to untangle the events behind his imminent demise. The murder involves gangsters and shady characters but the key to the mystery is a letter he notarized in his office.

Film Noir:Dark Side of the Screen by Foster Hirsch calls Bigelow's search for his own killer noir irony at its blackest: "One of the films many ironies is that his last desperate search involves him in his life more forcefully than he has ever been before. Tracking down his killer just before he dies-discovering the reason for his death-turns out to be the triumph of his life"

The film was remade in 1969 (as the British Color Me Dead) and again in 1988 with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. See D.O.A. (1988 film)
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Due to copyright law issues, it has fallen into the public domain.

Main cast

Edmond O'Brien
Frank Bigelow
Pamela Britton
Paula Gibson
Luther Adler
Majak
Beverly Garland
Miss Foster
Neville Brand
Chester

Quotes

"I want to report a murder."
"Who was murdered?"
"I was."
"How shall I make out the report on him, Captain?"
"Better make it "dead on arrival."

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