The Clay Pigeon

1949 1h 3m ★5.7

The Clay Pigeon

“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.

Release Date March 3, 1949
Runtime 1h 3m
Language English
Director Richard Fleischer
Category Thriller, Crime
Rating 5.7 / 10 (TMDb)
Year 1949
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