The Clay Pigeon

IMDb 5.5 1949 • 63 min • ThrillerCrime

Director

Richard Fleischer

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Bill Williams
Bill Williams Jim Fletcher
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale Martha Gregory
Richard Quine
Richard Quine Ted Niles
Richard Loo
Richard Loo Ken Tokoyama
Frank Fenton
Frank Fenton Prentice