Saturday, July 18, 2015

Jul 17th 
D.O.A.**               

(US 1950)                                    

An accountant is lethally poisoned in San Francisco, and spends his remaining hours trying to unmask the murderer.
Offbeat pulp thriller with some slightly melodramatic acting, but enjoyably put together with good and revealing use of day-to-day street locations in California at the time.

Written by: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene.
Producer: Leo C. Popkin.
Director: Rudolph Mate.
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, William Ching, Lynn Baggett, Neville Brand, Beverley Garland, Laurette Luez, Carol Hughes.
Photography: Ernest Laszlo.
Music: Dmitri Tiomkin.

+ the finale takes place inside the Bradbury Building is Los Angeles, also later used for the finale of Blade Runner


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