Movie
The Clay Pigeon
1949 · 63 min
A taut, shadowy little noir that keeps you leaning in as a confused man races to outrun a frame-up.
- Directed by
- Richard Fleischer
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Starring
- Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine
- Tagline
- A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.
- 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.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark and cynical. Brisk and needs your attention.
- About
- Betrayal, memory, guilt, conspiracy
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard Fleischer
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Starring
- Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine
