The Clay Pigeon
6.5
“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.
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Cast
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Bill Williams
Jim Fletcher
Known for
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Barbara Hale
Martha Gregory
Known for
Perry Mason
Airport
Richard Quine
Ted Niles
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Richard Loo
Ken Tokoyama
Known for
The Man with the Golden Gun
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Frank Fenton
Prentice
Known for
A Foreign Affair
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Frank Wilcox
Navy Hospital Doctor
Known for
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
The Untouchables
Marya Marco
Helen Minoto
Known for
Sleep, My Love
Robert Bray
Gunsel Blake
Known for
Lassie
Bus Stop
Martha Hyer
Miss Harwick
Known for
Sabrina
The Sons of Katie Elder
Harold Landon
Blind Veteran
Also in
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James Craven
John Wheeler
Known for
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Grandon Rhodes
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Known for
Revenge of the Creature
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Richard Fleischer Director · Carl Foreman Screenplay Paul Sawtell Composer
United States release March 3, 1949 · Produced in United States · Production RKO
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
RKO
Studio · Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 3, 1949
Limited theatrical · Los Angeles, California
United States
June 29, 1949 · Theatrical
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