Rudolph Mate's D.O.A. (1950) offers an innovative film noir. Oft-imitated, its well-conceived race-against-time plot gives a boost to shaky storytelling.Accountant Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) vacations in San Francisco, drinking and carousing with a sales convention. Bigelow becomes ill and discovers he's been slipped a poisoned drink which dooms him to a lingering death. Bigelow decides to uncover his murderers before he passes, discovering that business associate Phillips had frantically called him before taking his own life. Bigelow's investigation brings him afoul of crime boss Majak (Luther Adler) and his goons, who won't ...