Specialty CollectionGenre: 1950s FEATURE FILMS
Description: FILM NOIR STARRING EDMOND O'BRIEN, PAMELA BRITTON, LUTHER ADLER, BEVERLY CAMPBELL (GARLAND), LYNN BAGGETT, WILLIAM CHING, HENRY HART, NEVILLE BRAND, LAURETTE LUEZ, JESS KIRKPATRICK, CAY FORRESTER, VIRGINIA LEE, MICHAEL ROSS. SEMI-CLASSIC SUSPENSE CRIME DRAMA: VICTIM OF A SLOW POISONING TRIES TO FIND OUT WHO POISONED HIM AND WHY. SHOT MOSTLY IN SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES STREETS. IN A CLEVER TWIST, A MURDER VICTIM DISCOVERS HE HAS BEEN POISONED & BEGINS TRACKING DOWN HIS OWN KILLER. THE CPA ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO ON VACATION, BUT AFTER A NIGHT ON THE TOWN HE GROWS ILL & CONSULTS A DOCTOR WHO TELLS HIM HE HAS BEEN DOSED WITH RADIATION POISON & HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED TO ONLY A FEW. HOSPITALIZED, THE VICTIMIZED BUSINESSMAN REALIZES THAT HIS MURDERER WILL ESCAPE PUNISHMENT UNLESS HE HIMSELF HUNTS HIM DOWN. HE BEGINS TO INVESTIGATE AFTER FLEEING THE HOSPITAL, CALLING HIS HOME OFFICE IN BANNING, CALIFORNIA. HIS SECRETARY-FIANCEE TELLS HIM THAT HE NOTARIZED A SHIPMENT OF DEADLY IRIDIUM & HE LATER DISCOVERS CRIMINALS HAVE OBTAINED THE SHIPMENT & USED IT TO MURDER THE HEAD OF THE COMPANY SHIPPING THE POISON. HE HAS BEEN DOSED BECAUSE HE NOTARIZED THE SHIPMENT AND MIGHT LEAD A TRAIL TO THE KILLERS. BEFORE HE CAN LOCATE THE PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER, THE MURDERER FINDS HIM & A WILD CHASE THROUGH LOS ANGELES ENSUES WITH THE LAWYER KILLING HIS PURSURER, THEN GOING TO A POLICE STATION. HE HAS BEEN TELLING THE TALE FROM THE BEGINNING & ALL THE HARROWING EVENTS ARE REVEALED IN FLASHBACK. WHEN HE FINISHES HIS FRIGHTENING STORY, HE COLLAPSES DEAD ON THE POLICE OFFICER'S DESK. HE IS REMOVED, HIS BODY MARKED "DOA" (DEAD ON ARRIVAL).
