The Clay Pigeon

The Clay Pigeon

Year: 1949

Runtime: 63 mins

Language: English

Director: Richard Fleischer

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Jim Fletcher awakens from a coma to learn he faces a court‑martial for treason, accused of informing on fellow inmates in a WWII Japanese prison camp. He escapes the hospital, teaming with Martha Gregory, the widow of an accused comrade, and fellow survivor Ted Niles. Their search uncovers a plot involving his Japanese guard, forged ten‑million dollars in U.S. currency and a crime network in Southern California.

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