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The Clay Pigeon

1949 · 1h 3m · Crime, Thriller · United States of America

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.

Directed by
Richard Fleischer
Written by
Carl Foreman
Story by
Carl Foreman
Starring
Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo
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6.0Smart score

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amnesiacomacounterfeit moneycourt martialfilm noirforgerjapanese pow camppost world war iipow survivorwaking from comawar veteranwar veteran with amnesia

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