Possible Clues:

• Noir movie in the National Film Registry
• Noir classic in the National Film Registry
• ___ big favor
• Hopeless from the start, for short
• Classic film noir about a man investigating his own murder
• Morgue abbr
• Film classic in which a man reports his own murder
• 1950 film in which Frank Bigelow investigates his own murder
• Foo Fighters "No one's getting out of here alive" song
• Tragic E.R. status