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D.O.A.

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D.O.A.	comment	D.O.A., or Dead on Arrival, is a 1949 Film Noir drama directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton.The film centers around a man named Frank Bigelow (O'Brien), who frantically tries to find out who slipped him an incurably fatal dose of a rare poison—and why. The plot speeds along as Frank recounts his activities over the past few days to the police.Due to a filing error that prevented the film's copyright from being renewed in time, it is in the Public Domain, and as such it can be downloaded here, courtesy of the Internet Archive.Remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead with the original writers on board. Watch it here. A very, very loose remake, starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, was released in 1988; this is the remake referred to below unless otherwise stated. The 2006 film Crank has a similar plot.If you're looking for the fighting game, see Dead or Alive.
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D.O.A. / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Mark his file... as DOA."
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D.O.A. / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
D.O.A. / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: "Would you... Paula". Frank's final utterance before dying at the end.
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D.O.A. / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
D.O.A. / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In the remake, the entire murder spree was solely in order for Hal to commit plagiarism, and pass off Nick Lang's unpubished novel as his own. When Cornell realises that this is why the murders have been committed, he begins laughing in shock at Hal, and does the same at the end of the film when talking to the police. Cornell's murder is even more of an example of this, given that of all the people who were murdered for having read Lang's manuscript, he was the only one who had not read it, and nor did he intend to - he gives the manuscript an A grade without opening it
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D.O.A. / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
D.O.A. / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: In the remake only.
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D.O.A. / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
D.O.A. / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Chester enjoys hurting people. He especially relishes the gut shot, since it kills people nice... and slow.
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D.O.A. / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
D.O.A. / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: "Who was murdered?" "I was."
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D.O.A. / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
D.O.A. / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: Downplayed by the "luminous toxin". There is no antidote, so it is always deadly if the victim's body has absorbed a fatal dose. But it can be cured if the victim's stomach is cleaned out soon after ingesting the poison, and even a large dose will not kill immediately and causes the victim to have uncomfortable symptoms, as seen when Phillip's brother is poisoned. Bigelow notices immediately that something is wrong with his drink, but he takes two sips anyway before asking the bartender for another, and it's unclear if he tastes the poison or if he is just aware that it isn't the bourbon he asked for.
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D.O.A. / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
D.O.A. / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Hero Dies, but he at least manages to expose the villains whose plot led to his death.
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D.O.A. / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
D.O.A. / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Subverted: When Bigelow first meets Halliday in Los Angeles and questions him about Phillips, Halliday says, "I'm sorry you had to make the trip for nothing." Bigelow immediately asks how Halliday knew he made a trip at all, saying that he never mentioned he was from out of town. Then Halliday summons his secretary and has her recount that she told him about Phillips calling Bigelow's office in Banning but that he was on vacation in San Francisco at the time.
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D.O.A. / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
D.O.A. / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Happens a few times when Frank is in L.A. but not particularly egregious examples for the era.
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D.O.A. / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
D.O.A. / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: Taken to a whole new level in the remake with the car in question sinking into a tar pit.
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D.O.A. / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
D.O.A. / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Hal in the remake, Hal's blasted through a window by Dexter's gun. He even gets in a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
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D.O.A. / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
D.O.A. / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Majak, possibly. The way he says "please, my boy", while smoothing over Chester's hair...
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D.O.A. / int_634a768	type	Dead Man Walking
D.O.A. / int_634a768	comment	Dead Man Walking: The Ur-Example.
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D.O.A. / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
D.O.A. / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Invoked by Frank in that he had notarized so many documents, he never would have put together how one was connected to a "suicide".
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D.O.A. / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
D.O.A. / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Why Frank was killed. In reality, he knew nothing.
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D.O.A. / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
D.O.A. / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: As admitted by Mrs. Phillips:
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D.O.A. / int_7bd657f	type	White Collar Worker
D.O.A. / int_7bd657f	comment	White Collar Worker: Frank was an accountant.
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D.O.A. / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
D.O.A. / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The framing structure of the movie.
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D.O.A. / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
D.O.A. / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Cookie in the remake.
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D.O.A. / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Chester has a tendency to refer to himself this way.
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D.O.A. / int_8e35ce90	type	FramingStory
D.O.A. / int_8e35ce90	comment	Framing Story: The film begins and ends with How We Got Here at the police station.
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D.O.A. / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
D.O.A. / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Ms. Philips. An affair with her led Halliday to kill her husband, and the ensuing cover story they came up with led to the death of Bigelow and possibly Philips' brother too.
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D.O.A. / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
D.O.A. / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: Played straight as an an arrow in the final scene.
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D.O.A. / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
D.O.A. / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: A drugstore clerk disarms Chester and allows the police to take him out.
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D.O.A. / int_973ba076	type	Safety in Muggles
D.O.A. / int_973ba076	comment	Safety in Muggles: Subverted when Chester chases Frank into a drugstore. At first, it seems he won't make a scene, but it isn't long before he opens fire and scares all the patrons away. Later played straight when Majak reluctantly leaves Frank along because there are two policemen nearby.
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D.O.A. / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
D.O.A. / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: As Frank notes, had they just left him alone, he never would have connected the murder to a document he notarized but his poisoning exposed it.
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D.O.A. / int_a6049c20	type	Disturbed Doves
D.O.A. / int_a6049c20	comment	Disturbed Doves: In the empty warehouse when Frank pursues the sniper.
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D.O.A. / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
D.O.A. / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Majak and Marla Rakubian
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D.O.A. / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
D.O.A. / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: How Frank is being poisoned.
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D.O.A. / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
D.O.A. / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Surprisingly enough given its grim plot, this film has a (relatively) lighthearted score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Certainly more so than any other film noir.
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D.O.A. / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
D.O.A. / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Frank's ability to finish a drink quickly is shown early in the film and it becomes important later. This ability turns out to be his undoing, when he quickly downs almost all of the poisoned drink before realizing he is drinking out of the wrong glass.
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D.O.A. / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
D.O.A. / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: One of the Trope Codifiers.
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D.O.A. / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
D.O.A. / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Frank is told this by two different doctors after going in for testing. He understandably does not take the news well.
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D.O.A. / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
D.O.A. / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Chester.
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D.O.A. / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
D.O.A. / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: Frank finds a matchbook from The Fisherman club that the assassin who tried to shoot him dropped, confirming that it was indeed the same man who poisoned him.
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D.O.A. / int_c41d362e	type	Living on Borrowed Time
D.O.A. / int_c41d362e	comment	Living on Borrowed Time: The movie's premise is that Frank Bigelow is telling the story to the police while he knows he doesn't have long to live, since he ingested a lethal dose of poison with no antidote.
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D.O.A. / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
D.O.A. / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: Frank was killed to Leave No Witnesses who could prove Mr. Phillips didn't commit suicide and was murdered.
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D.O.A. / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
D.O.A. / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License – Chemistry: In the remake, the doctors state the poison to be Radium Chloride. Although Radium Chloride does have a slighy luminous glow to it, it doesn't have the intense bright green luminous glow that is shown at the end of the film in Professor Cornell's mug.
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D.O.A. / int_cbeb76de	type	Wacky Sound Effect
D.O.A. / int_cbeb76de	comment	Wacky Sound Effect: In one of the film's odder touches, a cartoonish slide whistle plays as Frank ogles the attractive female guests while checking into the San Francisco hotel. It was done to lighten the mood of a very crushingly depressing movie.
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D.O.A. / int_db32e308	type	Whodunnit to Me?
D.O.A. / int_db32e308	comment	Whodunnit to Me?: Pretty much the Trope Codifier.
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D.O.A. / int_dea5ae31	type	Doomed Protagonist
D.O.A. / int_dea5ae31	comment	Doomed Protagonist: There's no cure...
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D.O.A. / int_e0aced16	type	Giggling Villain
D.O.A. / int_e0aced16	comment	Giggling Villain: Chester.
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D.O.A. / int_e192c0a7	type	Standard Female Grab Area
D.O.A. / int_e192c0a7	comment	Standard Female Grab Area: Used by Bigelow to great effect while interrogating Phillips' secretary.
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D.O.A. / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The movie famously opens with a two minute shot of Frank slowly marching into a police station and through the corridors to the detective's office.
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D.O.A. / int_edae3679	type	Endless Corridor
D.O.A. / int_edae3679	comment	Endless Corridor: In the innovative opening sequence.
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D.O.A. / int_f1c17256	type	A Deadly Affair
D.O.A. / int_f1c17256	comment	A Deadly Affair: Played with in the remake. The police and Professor Cornell all assume that Nick Lang & Professor Cornell's wife's murders must be related to the affair that Nick and Cornell's wife were having. The various suspects include Cornell (furious at being cuckolded by his own student), Nick's adoptive sister (in love with Nick) or Nick's adoptive mother (initially implied to be in love with Nick). It actually turns out that the affair is completely unrelated to the murders.
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D.O.A. / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
D.O.A. / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time:
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D.O.A. / int_ff7e9adf	type	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
D.O.A. / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Paula.
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D.O.A. / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
D.O.A. / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the end credits—before the actors' names are listed—a title card informs us that the poison described is totally a real thing (irradiated iridium), and that "luminous poison" is an actual medical term.
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