The Clay Pigeon
6.4 /10 1 Votes6.4
Story by Carl Foreman Country United States | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Film-Noir, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 14, 1949 (1949-02-14) (US) Cast (Jim Fletcher), (Martha Gregory), (Ted Niles), (Ken Tokoyama aka The Weasel), (Lt. Cmdr. Prentice), (Navy Hospital Doctor) Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Blackhat , Sin City: A Dame to Kill For , The Night of the Hunter , The Loft , The Big Sleep | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
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.
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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.
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The Clay Pigeon WikipediaThe Clay Pigeon IMDb The Clay Pigeon themoviedb.org