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Edmund O’Brien plays the perfect noir character, which emphasizes the unhealthy, shadowy and gloomy sides
of the human experience. D.O.A. takes the victim of circumstances theme to its darkest peak. Here is a complete
review of the film included in this incredible DVD.

The film opens with the camera trailing the back of Edmund O'Brien as he walks into the L.A. Homicide bureau.
Bigelow eases himself into a chair by the Homicide captains desk and proceeds to report a murder- his own. A
literal whirlpool appears on screen to denote a flashback while Bigelow starts relating the final twenty-four hours
of his torturous existence to a room of transfixed homicide. Bigelow is an accountant who takes a week off to visit
San Francisco, ostensibly to get away from his secretary and incredibly needy, codependent, marathon-talking
girlfriend Paula (Pamela Britton).

While Paula broods, Bigelow goes out to paint the town red with a gang of his hotel neighbors, at a bar while
trying to get another woman’s attention, a sinister stranger switches his drink, giving Bigelow a fatal dose of
‘luminous toxin’. He wakes up the next morning feeling less than healthy. A trip to the doctor's office instantly
changes his entire perspective on life, for he finds out that he has been poisoned and there is no cure whatsoever.
With anywhere from a day to two weeks to live, he starts off on a relentless quest to discover his murderer. His
quest takes him to Los Angeles, where an importer had tried to contact him but has since committed suicide (maybe),
and thence to a crawl through the city's underbelly. Bigelow has nothing to lose, though, and he refuses to give up
as long as he has a breath in his body.