Freeview film of the day : wednesday 7th of May

DOA (1949 83min.) [Ch.4 1.45am thursday &+1]

Film noir starring Edmond O'Brien. When Frank Bigelow discovers he has been given a deadly, slow-acting poison, he desperately races around San Francisco trying to hunt down his own killer.

Not in the top drawer of post-War film noir thrillers but it does have several things going for it including the neat set-up whereby the hero is effectively searching for his own killer, some great LA location shooting, Dimitri Tiomkin's cracking score and a strong lead performance by O'Brien.

Takes a while to get going but once it does Rudolph Mate's film is a great example of the second division of the genre.