In San Francisco, the accountant Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) goes to the Homicide Division of the Police Station to report his murder and the captain and detectives listen to his intriguing story.
Frank has an accounting office in the small town Benny, on the way to Palm Spring. He tells his secretary and fiancée Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton) that he will travel alone to San Francisco to spend a couple of days on vacation expecting to have fun. Paul lodges in the hotel and befriends a group that is participating in the market week event. They go to The Fishermen and Frank is bothered by Sue, who is married with his host. Frank leaves the woman and meets the lonely socialite Jeanie and a man swaps his bourbon by another. Meanwhile Paula calls him telling that a man called Philip from Los Angeles wants to meet him.
On the next morning, Franks wakes up with hangover and goes to the Medical Building and the doctors tell him that he had drunk luminous toxin poison that affects vital organs and there is no antidote. Frank rushes to the Southern Pacific Hospital and the doctors confirm the diagnostic and give one week of life maximum. Frank Bigelow decides to investigate the reason why he was poisoned in a quest to find the truth.
"D.O.A." is a film with the intriguing story of a simple accountant that comes to the police station to report his own murder. The plot has a complex development and an ironic motive for the murder – the notarization of a bill of sale. Paula Gibson is irritating and annoying character.
In 1988, I saw the good remake of D.O.A. with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Charlotte Rampling. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "D.O.A. Com As Horas Contadas" ("D.O.A. With the Hours Counted")
Frank has an accounting office in the small town Benny, on the way to Palm Spring. He tells his secretary and fiancée Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton) that he will travel alone to San Francisco to spend a couple of days on vacation expecting to have fun. Paul lodges in the hotel and befriends a group that is participating in the market week event. They go to The Fishermen and Frank is bothered by Sue, who is married with his host. Frank leaves the woman and meets the lonely socialite Jeanie and a man swaps his bourbon by another. Meanwhile Paula calls him telling that a man called Philip from Los Angeles wants to meet him.
On the next morning, Franks wakes up with hangover and goes to the Medical Building and the doctors tell him that he had drunk luminous toxin poison that affects vital organs and there is no antidote. Frank rushes to the Southern Pacific Hospital and the doctors confirm the diagnostic and give one week of life maximum. Frank Bigelow decides to investigate the reason why he was poisoned in a quest to find the truth.
"D.O.A." is a film with the intriguing story of a simple accountant that comes to the police station to report his own murder. The plot has a complex development and an ironic motive for the murder – the notarization of a bill of sale. Paula Gibson is irritating and annoying character.
In 1988, I saw the good remake of D.O.A. with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Charlotte Rampling. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "D.O.A. Com As Horas Contadas" ("D.O.A. With the Hours Counted")