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Enviado por rinkuhero em 30/11/2008
This public domain movie is a classic example of film noir and one of my favorite movies. In it, a guy is poisoned by radiation poisoning put in his drink, and he knows he is going to die, but in with his remaining time he dedicates himself to discovering who killed him, and why.
It wasn't on YouTube yet so I thought I'd put it up. Orchard-L, author of Boundless Ocean, Missing, and who is helping me make Saturated Dreamers, recommended the movie to me.
Director: Rudolph Mate
Producer: Leo C. Popkin
Cardinal Pictures
Public Domain
D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him, and why.
Leo C. Popkin produced the film for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures, but failed to renew the copyright in 1977,[citation needed] so that it has fallen into the public domain. The Internet Movie Database shows that 22 companies offer the VHS or DVD versions, and the Internet Archive (see below) offers an online version.
D.O.A. est l'abréviation de dead on arrival, mort à l'arrivée déclarée lorsqu'une personne est morte à son arrivée à l'hôpital. (Wikipedia)
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Mild-mannered accountant, Frank Bigelow, is poisoned and with only days to live starts a frantic search for HIS killer!
DOA is a taut thriller with a bravura performance from Edmond O’Brien as Frank Bigelow. From the Cardinal Pictures factory and directed by Rudolph Maté, this movie packs so much in 83 minutes. It starts off slow, but once the action shifts from a sleepy rural burg to San Francisco and LA, the pace is frenetic. The streets of these cities are filmed in deep focus, and there is a sense of immediacy in every scene.
Expressionist lighting accents the hysteria and panic as Bigelow desperately races against time to track down his killer. With a pot-boiler plot and a terrific hard-edged portrayal from O’Brien, this is not only a gritty on-the-streets in-your-face melodrama, but a nuanced film noir where a random innocent act is a decent man’s un-doing.
The camera is used with abandon to visualise the traumatic whirlwind that Bigelow has been thrown into.
An early scene in a bar just before Bigelow is poisoned, has the hottest period live jive music that I have seen on film. The music and the editing meld the drama of the story with the out-of-this world music from the black players for a total immersion into the wild soul of jazz. You need Jack Kerouac to even come close to describing the feelings evoked. A classic must-see adrenalin-fuelled film noir!
The saxophanist in this clip from DOA was James E. Streeter, a native of Wichita Kansas, got his start playing tenor sax in Lloyd Hunter’s territory band. Bandleader Johnny Otis took Streeter to Los Angeles in 1944. Enamored of director-actor Erich von Stroheim, Streeter billed himself as Von Streeter or James Von Streeter. In the late 1940s and early ’50s, he recorded for several labels, including Coral, as Von Streeter & His Wig Poppers, playing wild, honking R&B, and several members of this group accompanied him when he appeared as a wild, sweaty sax maniac in a key nightclub scene of the original D.O.A. (1950). However, for the soundtrack the producer overdubbed another band altogether, led by saxophonist Maxwell Davis, who would later be influential as a Los Angeles A&R man during the early rock ‘n’ roll era. Streeter’s career was derailed by heroin addiction, which eventually killed him in 1960. Source for bio of James E. Streeter: IMDB
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