Homicide Detective: "Can I help you?"
Frank Bigelow: "I want to report a murder."
Detective: "Where was this murder committed?"
Bigelow: "San Francisco, last night."
Detective: "Who was murdered?"
Bigelow: "I was."
That's the plot and gimmick of D.O.A., starring noir superstar Edmond O'Brien as the doomed Bigelow, who spends the entire movie and his last 24 hours trying to find out who poisoned him and why. Fast-paced, suspenseful, improved not a whit by the 1988 remake.
