The Clay Pigeon

Mar 3, 1949

1h 3m

★ 5.5

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

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.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Jim Fletcher

Bill Williams

Martha Gregory

Barbara Hale

Ted Niles

Richard Quine

Ken Tokoyama

Richard Loo

Prentice

Frank Fenton

Navy Hospital Doctor

Frank Wilcox

Helen Minoto

Marya Marco

Gunsel Blake

Robert Bray

Miss Harwick

Martha Hyer

Blind Veteran

Harold Landon

John Wheeler

James Craven

Naval Intelligence Agent Clark

Grandon Rhodes

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