The Clay Pigeon (1949)

03/03/1949 (US) • 1h 3m

Thriller, Crime

A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Bill Williams

Jim Fletcher

Barbara Hale

Martha Gregory

Richard Quine

Ted Niles

Richard Loo

Ken Tokoyama

Frank Fenton

Prentice

Frank Wilcox

Navy Hospital Doctor

Marya Marco

Helen Minoto

Robert Bray

Gunsel Blake

Martha Hyer

Miss Harwick


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

amnesia

coma

war veteran

film noir

post world war ii

court martial

counterfeit money

waking from coma

forger

pow survivor

war veteran with amnesia

japanese pow camp

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