D.O.A. - Dead On Arrival
DOA

Crime, Drama

Pamela Britton	Paula Gibson
Edmond O'Brien	Frank Bigelow
Luther Adler	Majak
Beverly Garland	Miss Foster
Lynn Baggett	Mrs. Philips
William Ching	Halliday
Henry Hart	Stanley Philips
Neville Brand	Chester
Laurette Luez	Marla Rakubian
Jess Kirkpatrick	Sam

Director	Rudolph Mate; Rudolph Maté
Producer	Leo C. Popkin; Joseph H. Nadel; Harry M. Popkin
Writer	Russell Rouse; Clarence Greene

A man named Frank Bigelow (Edmund O'Brian) shows up at a Los Angeles police station to report a murder - his own. Frank is dying of luminous toxin poisoning. He recounts to police the incredible story that brought him to be at the brink of death in this police station in a strange city. Just a few days ago, he was a business owner in a little town called Banning. He had an adoring girlfriend, Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton), who was also his personal secretary. But Frank had cold feet about marrying Paula and decided to take a little vacation to San Francisco to give himself some air. Paula called to tell him that a man named Phillips was desperately trying to reach him, but the name didn't ring a bell. The next day, Frank found out that he had been fatally and irreversibly poisoned. Frank's increasingly frantic search for the identity and motivation of his murderer takes him to two cities, into the criminal underworld, and onto the wrong end of several pistols before all is done.