The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Synopsis
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.
Release Date: 1949-03-03
Runtime: 63 minutes
Director: Richard Fleischer
Top Cast
- Bill Williams as Jim Fletcher
- Barbara Hale as Martha Gregory
- Richard Quine as Ted Niles
- Richard Loo as Ken Tokoyama
- Frank Fenton as Prentice
- Frank Wilcox as Navy Hospital Doctor
- Marya Marco as Helen Minoto
- Robert Bray as Gunsel Blake
- Martha Hyer as Miss Harwick
- Harold Landon as Blind Veteran
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