It’s back, the most requested and well loved feature I think I’ve cooked up for this site so far has been the subject of oddly frequent requests from our readers. So here it is, I’ve resurrected it and it’s going to run THREE times weekly until our numbering has caught up to the weeks we have missed (the article previously ran every Sunday since the site’s inception).

Rudolph Mate’s D.O.A, the quintessential film noir has a great opening scene which doesn’t waste time with character development or any unnecessary fat. This opening is almost something out of a much more modern day movie, a two line concept if you will but it’s excellently executed here and it’s far from just a gimmick.

The film opens with a great tracking shot of Edmund O’Brien as we follow his frantic movements into the police chief’s office and his great revelation which kick-starts a movie that for it’s time quite literally never slows down.

D.O.A. is a superb movie and it’s been in the public domain for quite some time so you can easily and quite accessibly watch it online for free. It’s well worth getting your hands on…

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