Director: Rudolph Mate
I normally try to avoid all critical reaction before I write up my posts, but I did happen to catch the fact that critics of this film lauded its revolutionary plot. I had not thought it so revolutionary - I just thought, 'Oh, this is the noir version of Crank.' I have to wonder what kind of studio oversight a film like this had, because there are several scenes that feel modern: a long tracking shot to open the film, a musicless suspense scene where all we hear are footsteps, and a scene that was shot on location at a time when that seems rare (Wikipedia informs me that this is a stolen shot, and it certainly appeared that way).
D.O.A. starts out dreary and shapeless but quickly becomes a classic noir, where the hero knows more than the audience and is trying to put together the pieces before he's killed.
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