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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In the remake, the doctors state the poison to be Radium Chloride. Although Radium Chloride does have a slighy luminous glow to it, it doesn't have the intense bright green luminous glow that is shown at the end of the film in Professor Cornell's mug.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Played with in the remake. The police and Professor Cornell all assume that Nick Lang & Professor Cornell's wife's murders must be related to the affair that Nick and Cornell's wife were having. The various suspects include Cornell (furious at being cuckolded by his own student), Nick's adoptive sister (in love with Nick) or Nick's adoptive mother (initially implied to be in love with Nick). It actually turns out that the affair is completely unrelated to the murders.
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* AxCrazy: Chester enjoys hurting people. He especially relishes the gutshot, since it kills people nice...and slow.
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* AxCrazy: Chester enjoys hurting people. He especially relishes the gutshot, gut shot, since it kills people nice...nice... and slow.
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* WhoDunnitToMe: Pretty much the TropeCodifier.
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* WhoDunnitToMe: WhodunnitToMe: Pretty much the TropeCodifier.
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The film centers around a man named Frank Bigelow (O'Brien), who must frantically try to find out who slipped him an incurably fatal dose of a rare poison -- and why. The plot speeds along as Frank recounts [[HowWeGotHere his past events]] to the police to get help.
Due to a filing error the copyright to the film was not renewed on time, causing it to fall into the PublicDomain, and as such [[http://www.archive.org/details/doa_1949 it can be downloaded here]], courtesy of the Website/InternetArchive.
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The film centers around a man named Frank Bigelow (O'Brien), who must frantically try tries to find out who slipped him an incurably fatal dose of a rare poison -- and poison--and why. The plot speeds along as Frank recounts [[HowWeGotHere recounts his activities over the past events]] few days]] to the police to get help.
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Due to a filing error that prevented the film's copyrightto the film was not from being renewed on in time, causing it to fall into is in the PublicDomain, and as such [[http://www.archive.org/details/doa_1949 it can be downloaded here]], courtesy of the Website/InternetArchive.
Due to a filing error that prevented the film's copyright
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Subverted: When Bigelow first meets Halliday in Los Angeles and questions him about Phillips, Halliday says, "I'm sorry you had to make the trip for nothing." Bigelow immediately asks how Halliday knew he made a trip at all, saying that he never mentioned he was from out of town. Then Halliday summons his secretary and has her recount that she told him about Phillips calling Bigelow in Banning but that he was on vacation in San Francisco at the time.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Subverted: When Bigelow first meets Halliday in Los Angeles and questions him about Phillips, Halliday says, "I'm sorry you had to make the trip for nothing." Bigelow immediately asks how Halliday knew he made a trip at all, saying that he never mentioned he was from out of town. Then Halliday summons his secretary and has her recount that she told him about Phillips calling Bigelow Bigelow's office in Banning but that he was on vacation in San Francisco at the time.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Chester has a tendency to refer to himself this way.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Subverted: When Bigelow first meets Halliday in Los Angeles and questions him about Phillips, Halliday says, "I'm sorry you had to make the trip for nothing." Bigelow immediately asks how Halliday knew he made a trip at all, saying that he never mentioned he was from out of town. Then Halliday summons his secretary and has her recount that she told him about Phillips calling Bigelow in Banning but that he was on vacation in San Francisco at the time.
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* PerfectPoison: The Downplayed by the "luminous toxin".toxin". There is no antidote, so it is always deadly if the victim's body has absorbed a fatal dose. But it can be cured if the victim's stomach is cleaned out soon after ingesting the poison, and even a large dose will not kill immediately and causes the victim to have uncomfortable symptoms, as seen when Phillip's brother is poisoned. Bigelow notices immediately that something is wrong with his drink, but he takes two sips anyway before asking the bartender for another, and it's unclear if he tastes the poison or if he is just aware that it isn't the bourbon he asked for.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Invoked by Frank in that he had [[spoiler: notarized so many documents, he never would have put together how one was connected to a "suicide"]].
-->'''Frank''': All I did was notarize one little paper! One little paper out of hundreds!
-->'''Frank''': All I did was notarize one little paper! One little paper out of hundreds!
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* RevealingCoverUp: As Frank notes, had they just left him alone, he never would have connected the [[spoiler: murder to a document he notarized]] but his poisoning exposed it.
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Remade in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} in 1969 as ''Color Me Dead'' with the original writers on board. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqNDbNHd8UA Watch it here]]. [[InNameOnly A very, very loose]] remake starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MegRyan was released in 1988 (this 1988; this is the remake referred to below unless otherwise stated. The 2006 film ''Film/{{Crank}}'' has a similar plot.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The hero dies, but he at least manages to expose the villains whose plot led to his death.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The hero dies, [[spoiler:TheHeroDies, but he at least manages to expose the villains whose plot led to his death.]]
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Remade in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} in 1969 as ''Color Me Dead''with Dead'' with the original writers on board. A [[InNameOnly very, very loose]] remake starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MegRyan was released in 1988 (this is the remake referred to below unless otherwise stated. The 2006 film ''Film/{{Crank}}'' has a similar plot.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Hal]] in the remake,[[spoiler: Hal's[[DestinationDefenestration Hal's [[DestinationDefenestration blasted through a window]] by Dexter's gun. He even gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.]]
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* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: Cookie]] in the remake.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Hal]] in the remake,[[spoiler: Hal's[[DestinationDefenestration blasted through a window]] by Dexter's gun. He even gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Hal]] in the remake,[[spoiler: Hal's[[DestinationDefenestration blasted through a window]] by Dexter's gun. He even gets in a PreMortemOneLiner.]]
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Death Is Cheap refers to coming back from the dead, which does not happen in this movie.
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* WackySoundEffect: In one of the film's odder touches, a cartoonish slide whistle plays as Frank ogles the attractive female guests while checking into the San Francisco hotel.
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* WackySoundEffect: In one of the film's odder touches, a cartoonish slide whistle plays as Frank ogles the attractive female guests while checking into the San Francisco hotel. It was done to lighten the mood of a ''very'' crushingly depressing movie.
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* TreacheryCoverUp: Frank was killed [[spoiler:to LeaveNoWitnesses who could prove Mr. Phillips didn't commit suicide and was murdered.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: In the end credits--''before'' the actors' names are listed--a title card informs us that the poison described is totally a real thing (most likely phosphorus), and that "luminous poison" is an actual medical term.
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* ShownTheirWork: In the end credits--''before'' the actors' names are listed--a title card informs us that the poison described is totally a real thing (most likely phosphorus), (irradiated iridium), and that "luminous poison" is an actual medical term.
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* SayMyName: "Paula". [[spoiler:Frank's [[LastWords final utterance]] before dying at the end.]]
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* TheOner: The movie famously opens with a two minute shot of Frank slowly marching into a police station and through the corridors to the detective's office.
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''D.O.A.'', or ''Dead on Arrival'', is a 1950 FilmNoir drama directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton.
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''D.O.A.'', or ''Dead on Arrival'', is a 1950 1949 FilmNoir drama directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton.
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* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Ms. Philips. An affair with her led Halliday to kill her husband, and the ensuing cover story they came up with led to the death of Bigelow and possibly Philips' brother too.]]
