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The Clay Pigeon

Name: The Clay Pigeon
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 1949-03-03
Duration: 63 min
Rating: 5.7

★ 5,7 /10 (21 Votes)

1949 EN 63 min

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.

Release date

03/03/1949

Votes

Popularity

0.3

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

Genres

Thriller Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

63 min

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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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Harold Landon

Blind Veteran

James Craven

John Wheeler

Grandon Rhodes

Naval Intelligence Agent Clark

Ann Doran

Nurse (uncredited)

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Lean mean amnesia machine. *** This review contains a spoiler *** The Clay Pigeon is directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman. It stars Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine and Richard Loo. Music is by Paul Sawtell and cinematography by Robert De Grasse. Jim Fletcher (Williams) is a survivor of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp who awakes from a coma with amnesia, and a charge of treason against him! Escaping hospital he aims to recover his memory and hopefully clear his name. The secret may be with another ex-POW inmate and the wife of the man who was killed on a…

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