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Director: Rudolph Mate
Writer: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Plot: In DOA, Frank Bigelow is poisoned by a Mr Halliday. The opening scene is a very sick-looking Bigelow reporting his murder to a homicide detective. Bigelow is a notary public and Halliday is a comptroller for a company, Philips' import-export, that purchased a stolen rare chemical, iridium. It turns out that Halliday engineered the theft and got Phillips to buy some. That bill-of-sale was notarized by Bigelow months earlier. The police arrest Phillips, charging him with stealing the iridium. While out on bail, Halliday kills Phillips, making the death appear to be suicide. Wanting to hide the existence of the bill-of-sale, Halliday secretly poisons Bigelow (with iridium, mixed in a drink) while he is vacationing in San Francisco. Not feeling well, Bigelow goes to some doctors, who confirm that his poisoning is fatal, with no known antidote. Bigelow eventually tracks down Halliday (via his connection with iridium) and shoots him to death. The movie ends with Bigelow slowly dying in the police station.
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