DOA - Murder on Arrival

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Movie
German title DOA - Murder on Arrival
Original title DOA
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Annabel Jankel ,
Rocky Morton
script Clarence Greene ,
Charles Edward Pogue ,
Russell Rouse
production Ian Sander ,
Laura Ziskin
music Chaz Jankel
camera Yuri Neyman
cut Raja Gosnell ,
Michael R. Miller
occupation

DOA - Murder On Arrival (Original Title: DOA ) is an American crime film of the genre thriller from 1988. It is a remake of the film victims of the underworld from 1950 with Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton .

The Director led Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , the writer wrote Clarence Greene , Charles Edward Pogue and Russell Rouse . The main roles played Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan .

action

In Austin living writer and literary scholar Dexter Cornell notify the police that he was poisoned. The previous events are told in a flashback .

Cornell was once successful as a writer, but has not been published in recent years. Cornell student Nicholas Lang dies in mysterious circumstances. A little later, during a medical examination, it is discovered that Cornell was poisoned. The doctor tells him that he can only live 24 to 48 hours and that there is no way of detoxification.

Cornell is looking for the killer, supported by the student Sydney Fuller. At first, Fuller just wanted to spend a love night with Cornell. The professor ties her hand to his with a superglue. During the research, a stranger carried out attacks on Cornell and Fuller, Cornell's wife (a divorce is being planned) is murdered.

Cornell notes that for the past several years his life has been unfulfilled and similar to the state of death. It turns out that his friend Hal Petersham is the killer. He murdered Nicholas Lang in order to pass the unpublished novel he wrote as his own work. It comes to a fight between Cornell and Petersham, in which Petersham dies.

At the end, Cornell is shown asking the police officers to have the last 48 hours of his life written down.

Reviews

“A remake of a 1949 thriller of the same name, cleverly playing with genre quotes, but which does not develop into a self-contained film, but remains fragmentary. A very interesting finger exercise in the matter of 'black series', especially for friends of the genre, who, overall, get too little out of the subject. "

- Lexicon of international film

The film received mixed reviews. It was described as witty and exciting as well as redundant and poorly staged . The performances by Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Charlotte Rampling were praised.

background

DOA = "Dead On Arrival" is a term that is used in American hospitals when a patient (for example from a traffic accident) is clinically dead upon admission to the emergency room .

literature

  • Karsten Prüßmann: Meg Ryan: Heart and mind . Munich 1996, pp. 73-79. ISBN 3-453-09405-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original title according to New York Times
  2. ^ DOA - Murder on Arrival. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2016 . Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used