
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
5.5|3 Mar, 1949|63 min
A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.
5.5|3 Mar, 1949|63 min
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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.
Keywords
amnesia
coma
war veteran
film noir
post world war ii
court martial
counterfeit money
waking from coma
forger
pow survivor
war veteran with amnesia
japanese pow camp
Casts

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

Martha Hyer
Miss Harwick
Harold Landon
Blind Veteran

James Craven
John Wheeler

Grandon Rhodes
Naval Intelligence Agent Clark

Ann Doran
Nurse (uncredited)
Crews

Richard Fleischer
Director

Carl Foreman
Screenplay

Carl Foreman
Story
Herman Schlom
Producer
Paul Sawtell
Original Music Composer
Robert De Grasse
Director of Photography
Samuel E. Beetley
Editor

Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Walter E. Keller
Art Direction
Harley Miller
Set Decoration
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Phil Brigandi
Sound
Clem Portman
Sound
Clifford Stine
Special Effects

C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
Charles Burke
Camera Operator
Ernest Bachrach
Still Photographer
Frank Uecker
Gaffer
Jim Curley
Grip
Backdrops & Posters

