The Clay Pigeon

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

The Clay Pigeon — Plot

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
• March 3, 1949
• Runtime
• 63 min
• Genres
• Thriller, Crime
• Director
• Richard Fleischer

The Clay Pigeon — 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