The Clay Pigeon (1949)
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.
- Date of release
- 1949-03-03
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Director
- Richard Fleischer
Casting
- 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
- Harold Landon — Blind Veteran
- James Craven — John Wheeler
- Grandon Rhodes — Naval Intelligence Agent Clark
Interesting facts
The Clay Pigeon is a 1949 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, a real-life husband and wife.
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