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Director
  
Richard Fleischer

Writer
  
Carl Foreman (story)

Story by
  
Carl Foreman

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Film-Noir, Drama

Music director
  
Paul Sawtell

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Clay Pigeon movie poster

Release date
  
February 14, 1949 (1949-02-14) (US)

Cast
  
Bill Williams
(Jim Fletcher),
Barbara Hale
(Martha Gregory),
Richard Quine
(Ted Niles),
Richard Loo
(Ken Tokoyama aka The Weasel),
Frank Fenton
(Lt. Cmdr. Prentice),
Frank Wilcox
(Navy Hospital Doctor)

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The clay pigeon 1949


The Clay Pigeon is a 1949 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, real-life husband and wife.

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Plot

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Jim Fletcher (Williams), a former inmate in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, awakes from a coma at a naval hospital, only to be told he's been accused of murder. Fletcher is not quite certain of his guilt so he escapes from the hospital in search of his best friend, another ex-POW.

Cast

  • Bill Williams as Jim Fletcher
  • Barbara Hale as Martha Gregory
  • Richard Quine as Ted Niles
  • Richard Loo as Ken Tokoyama aka The Weasel
  • Frank Fenton as Lt. Cmdr. Prentice
  • Frank Wilcox as Navy Hospital Doctor
  • Robert Bray as Gunsel Blake
  • Martha Hyer as Miss Harwick, Wheeler's Receptionist
  • Harold Landon as Blind Veteran
  • James Craven as John Wheeler
  • Critical response

    Time Out film reviews wrote of the film, "Directed by Fleischer with tight, spare energy, although the implausible script and bland leading performances (with Hale as the dead friend's wife, initially hostile but soon losing her heart) make it much inferior to The Narrow Margin.

    References

    The Clay Pigeon Wikipedia
    The Clay Pigeon IMDb The Clay Pigeon themoviedb.org