D.O.A. is a 1988 very loose remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name, sharing the same premise but otherwise having a different story and characters.
The film was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, the creators of Max Headroom, and scripted by Charles Edward Pogue. The writers of the original film, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene, share story credit with Pogue.
It stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Charlotte Rampling and featured Timbuk 3 playing one of their songs in a bar scene. The movie was filmed in Austin, Texas and San Marcos, Texas.
The tag line for the film is:
Someone poisoned Dexter Cornell. He's got to find out who. He's got to find out why. He's got to find out because in 24 hours, he'll be Dead On Arrival.
A man staggers into the police station to report a murder. When the desk sergeant asks who was murdered, he answers: "I was."
That man is Professor Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid), who then sits down to video tape his account.
Thirty-six hours previously, Cornell, is on campus. He is a college professor, was once a promising writer, made his name and is secure in his tenure, but he has spent the last four years going though the motions and playing it safe. "Publish or perish" is the contrasting rule of university politics and Cornell helps his friend Hal Petersham (Daniel Stern) with his first book.
Plot
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O to his step-brother, Sir Stephen...
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The Masterpiece of Bizarre Love That Stormed France. A Portrait of Love and Submission to Disorder the Senses
"O" is the mistress of all mistresses.
We was broke and hungry on a summer day
They sent the sheriff down to try and drive us away
We were sittin' ducks for the police man
They found a dirty faced kid in a garbage can
And I'm alone
I'm on the highway
Wanted, dead or alive
Dead or alive
Broken down and dirty, dressed in rags
My from the day, my Mama told me "Boy, you pack your
bags."
I send the mayor down in his pickup truck
The jury look at me, say "Outta luck"
And I'm alone
And I'm on the highway
Wanted dead or alive
Dead or alive
Now, I'm broken down and dirty, dressed in rags
A from the day, my Mama told me "Boy, you pack your
bags"
And we were sittin' ducks for the police man
They found a dirty faced kid in a garbage can
Dirty yeah, yeah
Babe, I'm alone
And I'm on the highway
Wanted dead or alive
Dead or alive
I'm gone
Baby, let me run
I won't go till the sun lights the night
And the moon is melting my skin
Water turns to fire
And flames are freezing to ice
I won't go till I've tasted dark wine
Made out of deepest sorrow
Absorbing winds of suffering
On fields of blood and tears
Pictures move fast...the end in sight
But I will break...the laws of time
I won't go till I've immersed myself
On the trail of mystery
Searching for the sacred two headed worm