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Lakeshore Classic Movies
D.O.A. (1950)
Season 2023
Episode 11
After a night on the town in San Francisco, small-town accountant (Edmond O’Brien) wakes up with more than a hangover as doctors tell him he's been poisoned and has a week to live. Not knowing who did it or why, the doomed man goes on a desperate search to find his own murderer in this classic film noir.
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Boy discovers that he is the grandson of a wealthy Englishman and moves to his estate.
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Charlton Heston plays a Mexican narcotics officer drawn into a murder in dark film noir.
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Bank clerk Alec Guinness plots to steal gold bullion in this British caper film comedy.
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Early WWII spy thriller with the British and Germans after Czech scientist and daughter.
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Young woman traveling by train stumbles on a mystery when a fellow passenger goes missing.
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Soldier (John Gielgud) is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission to find a German agent.
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Bank teller has nightmare where he kills a man in strange room, but was it only a dream?
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A hitchhiker takes on the identity of the man who gave him a ride when he suddenly dies.
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Married insurance adjuster Dick Powell becomes involved with an embezzler’s girlfriend.
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A police detective (Cornell Wilde) is determined to catch a gang boss (Richard Conte),
Four thieves hold up an armored truck and leave an ex-con (John Payne) to take the rap.
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Mickey Rooney borrows $20 from the till to take out a new girl, leading to more trouble.