The Clay Pigeon (1949) - The A.V. Club
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The Clay Pigeon

1949
1h 3m
Crime/Drama/Film-noir
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Cast

Bill Williams (Jim Fletcher)Barbara Hale (Martha Gregory)Richard Quine (Ted Niles)Richard Loo (Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel)Frank Fenton (Lt. Cmdr. Prentice)Frank Wilcox (Hospital Doctor)Marya Marco (Helen Minoto)Robert Bray (Blake)Martha Hyer (Receptionist)Harold Landon (Blind Veteran in)

Director

Richard Fleischer

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Synopsis

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.

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