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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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Frank Bigelow: The woman always gets hurt more than the man.


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


[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.


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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.
Film debut of Beverly Garland (billed as "Beverly Campbell").
The Life magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the publication from September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader, Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover.
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D.O.A.

Released 1950
Inducted 2004
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