The Clay Pigeon
1949, Film, 63 min, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, English, United States, MoviePedia score 62
A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.
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.
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Cast
- Bill Williams as Jim Fletcher
- Barbara Hale as Martha Gregory
- Richard Quine as Ted Niles
- Richard Loo as Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel
- Frank Fenton as Lt. Cmdr. Prentice
- Frank Wilcox as Hospital Doctor
- Marya Marco as Helen Minoto
- Robert Bray as Blake
- Martha Hyer as Receptionist
- Harold Landon as Blind Veteran in
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