The Clay Pigeon
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.
- Year: 1949
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Thriller, Crime
- Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
- Keyword: amnesia, coma, war veteran, film noir, post world war ii, court martial, counterfeit money, waking from coma, forger, pow survivor, war veteran with amnesia, japanese pow camp
- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Cast: Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo, Frank Fenton, Frank Wilcox
