The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Drama|Film-Noir
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.
Director:Richard Fleischer
Genre:Film-Noir | Drama
Cast
Bill Williams … Jim Fletcher
Barbara Hale … Martha Gregory
Richard Quine … Ted Niles
Richard Loo … Ken Tokoyama aka The Weasel
Frank Fenton … Lt. Cmdr. Prentice
Frank Wilcox … Navy Hospital Doctor
Marya Marco … Mrs. Helen Minoto (as Mary Marco)
Robert Bray … Gunsel Blake
Martha Hyer … Miss Harwick, Wheeler’s Receptionist
Harold Landon … Blind Veteran
James Craven … John Wheeler
Grandon Rhodes … Naval Intelligence Agent Clark
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