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D.O.A., American film noir, released in 1950, that was noted for its ingenious plot. Tax accountant Frank Bigelow (played by Edmond O’Brien) walks into a police station to report his own murder. A few days earlier, he had left his girlfriend for a weekend of relaxation in San Francisco. While in a jazz club, someone switches his drink. The next day Bigelow discovers that he has been inexplicably poisoned with a slow-working toxin certain to...