D.O.A. (1950 film)

D.O.A.
D.O.A.
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rudolph Maté
Written by	Russell Rouse; Clarence Greene;
Produced by	Leo C. Popkin
Starring	Edmond O'Brien; Pamela Britton; Luther Adler; Beverly Campbell; Neville Brand; Lynn Baggett; William Ching; Henry Hart; Laurette Luez;
Cinematography	Ernest Laszlo
Edited by	Arthur H. Nadel
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Color process	Black and white
Production; companies	Harry Popkin Productions; Cardinal Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	April 21, 1950;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

D.O.A.

D.O.A. is a 1950 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton. It is considered a classic of the genre. A fatally poisoned man tries to find out who has poisoned him and why. It was the film debuts of Beverly Garland (as Beverly Campbell) and Laurette Luez. In 2004, D.O.A. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."^[1]^[2]

Leo C. Popkin produced D.O.A. for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures. Due to a filing error, the copyright to the film was not renewed on time,^[3] causing it to fall into the public domain: it was subsequently remade as Color Me Dead (1969), D.O.A. (1988), Dead On Arrival (2017), and D.O.A. (2022).

^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
^ "Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
^ Hayes, David P. (2008). "The Copyright Office Records an Invalid Renewal — Then Corrects Its Error". The Copyright Registration and Renewal Information Chart and Web Site. Retrieved 2015-06-14.

[1] "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-24.

[2] "Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-24.

[3] Hayes, David P. (2008). "The Copyright Office Records an Invalid Renewal — Then Corrects Its Error". The Copyright Registration and Renewal Information Chart and Web Site. Retrieved 2015-06-14.

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