![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police station to repo...
Keywords: suspense; film noir
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| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
Acclaimed film noir story of man trying desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium.
Keywords: suspense; film noir
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| Detour
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald. | A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000 and ended up costing $117,000 to make.
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller
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| Detour (iPod) - Leon Fromkess
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000, but cost $117,000 to make. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Roger Clark, Pat Gleason, Esther Howard...
Keywords: Crime; Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller
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| Door-to-Door Maniac - James Ellsworth
A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Keywords: Crime; Music; Drama; Thriller
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