D.O.A. (1950)

Directed by

Rudolph Maté

Genre

drama film, film noir, mystery film, crime thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 201 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man learns he has been poisoned and has only a short time to live. He frantically tries to find out who poisoned him and why before he dies.

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What happens

D.O.A. is a 1950 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton. It is considered a classic of the genre. A fatally poisoned man tries to find out who has poisoned him and why. It was the film debuts of Beverly Garland (as Beverly Campbell) and Laurette Luez. In 2004, D.O.A. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Leo C. Popkin produced D.O.A. for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures. Due to a filing error, the copyright to the film was not renewed on time, causing it to fall into the public domain: it was subsequently remade as Color Me Dead (1969), D.O.A. (1988), Dead on Arrival (2017), and D.O.A. (2022). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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