The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Thriller • Crime • 1ч 3м
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.
TMDB rating:
5.7
(21)
Cast
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
No photo
Harold Landon
Blind Veteran
James Craven
John Wheeler
Grandon Rhodes
Naval Intelligence Agent Clark
Ann Doran
Nurse (uncredited)
Crew
Herman Schlom
Producer
Carl Foreman
Screenplay
Paul Sawtell
Original Music Composer
Robert De Grasse
Director of Photography
Carl Foreman
Story
Richard Fleischer
Director
Samuel E. Beetley
Editor
C. Bakaleinikoff
Music Director
Harley Miller
Set Decoration
Clem Portman
Sound
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Phil Brigandi
Sound
Walter E. Keller
Art Direction
Clifford Stine
Special Effects
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Charles Burke
Camera Operator
Ernest Bachrach
Still Photographer
Frank Uecker
Gaffer
Jim Curley
Grip
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