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D.O.A. (1950) was a Film Noir - Drama Film directed by Rudolph Mat? and produced by Leo C. Popkin, Harry M. Popkin and Joseph H. Nadel.

D.O.A. was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2004.

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[first lines]
Homicide Detective: Can I help you?
Frank Bigelow: I'd like to see the man in charge.
Homicide Detective: In here...
Frank Bigelow: I want to report a murder.
Homicide Captain: Sit down. Where was this murder committed?
Frank Bigelow: San Francisco, last night.
Homicide Captain: Who was murdered?
Frank Bigelow: I was.


Paula Gibson: What's happening up there that's exciting and different?


Frank Bigelow: I can breathe and I can move, but I'm not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me.


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The scene in which Bigelow runs in panic through the streets after learning he has been poisoned was a stolen shot. The pedestrians had no idea a movie was being made and no warning that Edmond O'Brien would be plowing through them.
"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 21, 1951 with Edmond O'Brien reprising his film role.
When Frank Bigelow registers at the Allison Hotel in Los Angeles, the name directly above is Russell Rouse, one of the writers. Also on the register is Ernest Laszlo, the director of photography and Marty Moss, the assistant director.
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D.O.A.

Released 1950
Inducted 2004
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