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The Clay Pigeon (1949)

Directed by Richard Fleischer

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.

Rated NR | Length 63 minutes

Actors

Bill Williams | Barbara Hale | Richard Quine | Richard Loo | Frank Fenton | Frank Wilcox | Marya Marco | Robert Bray | Martha Hyer | Harold Landon | James Craven | Grandon Rhodes | Ann Doran