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A man named Frank Bigelow (Edmund O’Brian) shows up at Los Angeles police site to narrate a murder: his have. Frank is dying of gleaming toxin poisoning. He recounts to police the fantastic account that brought him to be at the brink of death in this police set in a exclusive city. Honest a few days ago, he was a minute business owner in a miniature town called Banning. He had an adoring girlfriend, Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton), who was also his personal secretary. But Frank had frigid feet about marrying Paula and decided to select a itsy-bitsy vacation to San Francisco to give himself some air. Paula called to enlighten him that a man named Phillips was desperately trying to come him, but the name didn’t ring a bell. The next day, Frank found out that he had been fatally and irreversibly poisoned. Frank’s increasingly frantic search for the identity and motivation of his murderer takes him to two cities, into the criminal underworld, and onto the immoral raze of several pistols before all is done.
Rudolph Mate’s “D.O.A.” is a film noir classic. And it takes the cynical conception typical of the genre. Frank is a man whose fate is entirely beyond his control. As the audience roots for Frank to solve the mystery and gain his murderer, fate unabashedly mocks his efforts. Frank is a dying man; what earthly disagreement will it earn if he finds his killer? Whatever Frank does, the result will be the same. And it’s all because he notarized a bill of sale…one out of hundreds of bills of sales. Who knew what being a notary could lead to? But for a movie with such a cynical epic to yelp, “D.O.A.” has always been immensely favorite. I consider that’s because Frank Bigelow is an “everyman” who rises to the occasion when difficult circumstances require it. He’s not too shimmering and not too monotonous. He has a nice girlfriend…to whom he isn’t entirely faithful. He’s basically a apt guy, works hard, but improper. And when fate deals him a awful deal, he finds within him a strength and determination that even he may not have known he had. He’s going to solve the mystery if it’s the last thing he does. Even though it will be the last thing he does. Edmund O’Brian does an admirable job of conveying Frank’s imperfection, his initial incredulity at his scrape, and then his determination when he stares reality in the face and decides to choose matters into his contain hands, to the extent that he can. The opening scene in which Frank enters the police area to record his bear kill is a stroke of genius. What a map to hook an audience! The only fault that I catch with the film are the ridiculous noises that we hear every time Frank spies an shapely woman. Their tone is completely bad to the film, and they are a actual blot on Dimitri Tiomkin’s otherwise generous procure.
The DVD (This refers to the Roan Group DVD only) : This film looks too contrasty and lacking in subtle tonality to me. Not having seen the film on the silver hide, I don’t know if it was originally like that, if there was a spot with the print, or if it’s a awful transfer. But the film stocks available in 1950 were technologically powerful better than this DVD would lead you to fill. The main menu on the disc doesn’t reveal up before the movie. The disc starts to play as soon as it is inserted into the player, so you have to either hit the menu button on your remote or regain yourself onto your couch snappily. There are two bonus features: An interview with actress Beverly Campbell (now Beverly Garland) in which she describes her experience being blacklisted by the Hollywood studios for several years following her appearance in “D.O.A.” And there are a few pages of text that you can read about film noir in general and “D.O.A.” in particular. Beverly Garland’s narrative is piquant, but the DVD seems to be set aside together in a slipshod manner.
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A really gargantuan looking transfer, with very gripping image, which is what I value the most. There is only one awful shot in the later portion of the movie obviously taken from an nasty source.
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