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The Clay Pigeon (1949)

The Clay Pigeon (1949)

Crime Thriller

A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.

Release Date: 1949, March 3
Directors: Richard Fleischer
Countries: United States of America
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Frank Wilcox, Frank Fenton, Harold Landon, Richard Loo, James Craven, Ann Doran, Robert Bray, Bill Williams, Martha Hyer, Barbara Hale, Grandon Rhodes, Marya Marco

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

film noir amnesia post world war ii waking from coma court martial war veteran coma counterfeit money forger pow survivor war veteran with amnesia japanese pow camp