This is a great example of a nightmare in black and white. It's one of the best film noirs of the post WWII era. Excellent cast. Excellent performances. Great director (Rudolph Mate'.) Thanks, Cult Cinema Classics.

WHAT GIVES WITH THE PUMP WHISTLE ALMOST KILLED IT FOR ME

This is a masterpiece. The suspense and the tone of the film was kept up to the end. WoW4 What an amazing story, cast direction and music.

The jazz band in the movie was led by saxophone player James Streeter. Other band members were Shifty Henry (bass), Alex “Cake” Wichard (drums), Ray LaRue (piano) and Teddy Buckner (trumpet).

Born in 1960 I remember the black and white tv we had when I grew up, Edmond O'Brien was such a great actor, he played in one of Gagneys big hit movies, he's great on this as well. This is a treat. Thank you.

This is film noir at its absolute best. The opening sequence is so ahead of its time and you are gripped from beginning to end.

One of the best noirs, could watch it over n over

Possible spoiler alert. my review from a few years ago. "DOA is Quite enjoyable and unusual. A fatally poisoned man spends the whole film trying to find out who poisoned him and why. From the opening long tracking shot of Edmond O'Brien's back as he makes his way to police headquarters to the final dark and surprising ending, this film never lets up. O'Brien enter the homicide division at the police station a says "i want to report a murder" The chief says " Who was murdered?" The answer from O'Brien? " I was" Right then you know this is gonna be a good one. O'Brien, in a very fine performance, is like a pinball bouncing from one scene to the next as he tries, in a long flashback, to unravel the horrible event that has happened to him. And he has only a few days to do it due to the poison's effects. O'Brien is very likable in his role as an accountant. He's a good man, but at his modest office, he's overworked and harassed by his secretary girlfriend (Barbara Britton) to pay more attention to her. There are some tender scenes with Britton that sharply contrast with very brutal ones, provided by Neville Brand as a terrifying psychopathic sadist. You can't take your eyes off him and his scenes are outstanding. As the brains behind the gangsters, Luther Adler is convincing too. The cinematography by Ernest Lazlo is superb mostly around locations in San Francisco and L.A.. One sequence in particular was secretly shot on the street in front of a real crowd of unsuspecting people as O'Brien runs through them. These cinema verite type shots are compelling and something special to the film. Rudolph Mate, the director, was originally a cameraman who filmed two Carl Dreyer classics, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Vampyr (1932) Visually the later is one of the most extraordinary films I've seen. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in five consecutive years, from 1940-1944. So you know he has a good eye and his direction here is excellent.The sense of urgency and doom is almost palpable in this kinetic noir. Foster Hirsch, the author of books on noir and a commentator on CUNY TV wrote " "O'Brien's search for his own killer is noir irony at its blackest. One of the film's many ironies is that his last desperate search involves him in his life more forcefully than he has ever been before... Tracking down his killer just before he dies - discovering the reason for his death - turns out to be the triumph of his life." . The ending must have been shocking for viewers in 1950 and it still is. I've seen the film a few times and the ending is still brutal and unsettling. Give producer Leo Popkin and his short-lived Cardinal Pictures credit for not caving in to popular taste. On the downside I found some of the soundtrack distracting. The wolf whistles are obviously out of place but other segments of Dimitri Tiomkin's music seemed heavy handed and worked against the action. In one of the earliest filmed scenes of a Beatnik club, the jazz combo playing was a bad misstep by someone. It was quite obvious (to me anyway) they were not really playing their instruments. The drumming was passable but not the rest of the band.. If they had just let them play live it would have been a wonderful scene. Why they didn't is beyond me. But those are minor misgivings in what otherwise is a fine film. Classic noir story---an ordinary human being, through a twist of fate, is hurled into a dreadful situation. This one's a beaut. Highly recommended."

Good movie! The remake in the 80s wasn't too bad. But i still gotta go with the original.

I felt the outdoor city scenes really helped capture the era and Americana. I also especially liked him running through the streets in his initial terror, I thought that was powerful cinematography. Thank you CCC

Fantastic Film 🎥 thanks for sharing!! And I really hope this gets a Blu-ray soon it really is A Wonderful Super Enjoyable Film Noir!!

I can't wait, Edmond Obrien is a 10

One helluva movie!!! Too bad they don't make em like this anymore.

One of the kind....Only the end was sad....And Paula was such a lovely young woman....We close our eyes and go deep in the past...

I remember seeing it and being glued to my seat as a kid. Always wanted to see it again. Thanks!

I've seen this movie 5 times over the decades and I still can't figure-out the entire plot. Too many names, people, suspects, etc,. Nevertheless I still like this movie.

This was gorgeously shot and paced. A phenomenal film noir, probably my favorite so far. I was glued throughout, lots of action and suspense. 👍

Fantastic film. Huge fan of Mr. Obrien. What a career he had. He did "Julius Caesar" with Gielgud, Brando, Tom Powers ("Double Indemnity"), and James Mason.

That's better! Brilliant film.

What an amazing movie!

In this era of films, an unusual case of the protagonist not living happily ever after, w/a nice, neat, feel good ending.

DOA is one of the best in the Film Noir genre. I watch it every once in a while. Also, the settings, Fisherman's Warf in that period, and L.A., with tumbleweeds! Absolutely a Cult Classic!

Bigelow shoulda stayed home with Paula instead of going to San Francisco for a wild time.

This is the best thing O'Brien ever did. Great script, great movie, as good as film noir every is😊. It's never been done better 😊.

Thank you for this movie, which is the second time I've seen it, I saw it 2 years ago, excellent.

No one can act or write stories like that anymore!! I'm so sick of every other word being a swear word!! That's what pretends to be story telling today.

Great movie. A favorite!

Cool movie. Never thought that NCIS serie had been not the first of their kind till that much older movie about the same plot)

Thank you!!!!

Can you believe it Edmond o brien. Played in one of the best western. WILD BUNCH 😊

great movie and tragic at the same time

Thank you for the movies ❤

Excellent movie Waiting to see such great movies

Good movie. Thank you.

I saw this movie two decades ago and I couldn't remember the name or anything else much about it. I just remembered it was a man who was going to die so he had to act with urgency. Such an important story about time and making the most of it before it's too late.

Move Photo Caption: Dude: What's the prognoises doc? Doc: For you I see a bad moon ricin, dude. You a walkin' dead man, a zombie. Can I get dibs on your bank account? Dude: Quit clowin', doc. What's the score? Doc: If I'm lyin', I'M DYIN'. Dude: Cheeky! 😆 Such smart banter. I'm watching this film noir. 😊

Edmond is great in Welles's The Other side of the wind - his swansong, so to speak

Excellent film, thanks.

He reminds me of Ricky Ricardo

Film Noir at its very, very best.

Classic!

Excelente

Excelente filme ! Gostei muito ! Ótimo para assistir de madrugada 😊

This movie was released in 1950. Although, it was filmed in 1949 and I like the 1988 remake movie from Touchstone Pictures with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan.

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I think this is one of the *safer’ film noir films when you compare it to the likes of Kiss me Deadly, Out Of The Past, The Killing. The hero is a little too heroic for me

I could search for her.., just wondering if Pamela Britton is related to Barbara (Mr. & Mrs. North; Captain Kidd)

Интересный динамичный фильм.

Muy buena peli!

The very first thing, genius: you should've go the police in the beginning of the poisoning.

I like this films because see places, buldings, avenues, streets from seventy years ago. The California vintage! Sorry, my english Is bad, but your understand!

Bonne série B, typique des années 1940-50...

How bout' Neville Brand as Chester!!!! One of the best thugs ever!!!

Beverly Garland (Campbell) looks completely different as a brunette!

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What was his disease. Flaming fluronemia or something?

Sospecho que es un buen film.Los subtitulos en castellano parecen hechos por Tarzan.-

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Ho-ho-ho! I'm here to kick butt and lick candy canes, and I'm all out of candy canes!😂

Bad ending. Writer could have said specialist surgery saved him, NOT dead. NOT a good writing cz viewers do NOT want to end like this! I will NOT watch again!

What is with the wolf whistle at every girl?

LOL the elevator @ 43:40 only has one set of sliding doors! #FakeElevator

D.o.a.

Neville Brand ................... So Vastly Under Rated .............. WW2 VET

I rewatched DOA last night and was surprised at how bad it was . O'Brien , who is usually very good, was just over-acting. Pamela Britton was not good either. When O[Brien checks into the hotel and see's a woman they use this hilarious catcall sound effect. What the hell was that. Overall , very disappointing

Boy ha he's 32😅

Great movie except for Pamela Britton, who unlike her beloved Mrs. Brown on "My Favorite Martian" is incredibly annoying as the girlfriend here, if it came down to it, I'd take the poison!

That bleach blonde mouse must have been the only actress in Hollywood during this time, either that, or her dad was the producer or director. Meh.It doesn't help that she plays the role of a clingy, needy dish-rag, here. Good movie, though.

This one was just ok. A bit confusing with all the characters and the story, and the acting was a bit dated. But it was entertaining enough. I just watched Mildred Pierce yesterday. That one was really good.

Once minutos y pico de película... Me están pareciendo demasiado tontos los "tropiezos" en el hotel... No puedo ver más...

I don't understand why this film has such a high reputation - it makes almost zero sense and the dialogue is stodgy at best. It peps along once the lead has consulted two specialists over a bit of a hangover, but then gets mired in his "romance" with his tedious secretary. And don't get started on the swannee whistles every time he sees a girl he fancies...

Change the name of this film to Edmund O'Brien slaps around women

I decided the colorization was just too awful. Like looking a the living dead after escaping from the clutches of a mortician who didn't understand how to use makeup . . . Oh well

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