Movie
1950
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 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,…
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Film noir is, by its definition (“black film” in French), a very dark genre in which very bad things tend to happen to protagonists. However, few things look as dark and depressing as the main premise of *D.O.A.*, a 1949 film directed by Rudolph Maté, which is now considered one of the most famous film noirs and one of the most influential thrillers in the history of Hollywood. *D.O.A.* begins with what was arguably…More
