The Clay Pigeon (1949)

The Clay Pigeon (1949) - Thriller Movies 63 minutes. Le pigeon d'argile. 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. 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