D.O.A. (1949)

Name: D.O.A. (1949)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Description: A small-town accountant walks into a police station to report a murder — his own. Slipped a "luminous toxin" with no antidote, he has a day or two to trace the poison back through nightclubs, blackmail and a shipment of stolen iridium before it kills him. Told entirely in flashback from a dead man walking.

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1949 · 1h 23m · Noir

Directed by Rudolph Maté

public domain

US public domain — the copyright was not renewed after its initial 28-year term.

A small-town accountant walks into a police station to report a murder — his own. Slipped a "luminous toxin" with no antidote, he has a day or two to trace the poison back through nightclubs, blackmail and a shipment of stolen iridium before it kills him. Told entirely in flashback from a dead man walking.

The purest ticking-clock premise in noir: the detective and the corpse are the same man, and the clock never stops.

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