The Clay Pigeon (1949)
• March 3rd, 1949 • 1h 3min
Thriller, Crime
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Titanic II
Released on: 2010-08-07
Action, Thriller, Romance, Adventure, Drama
On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follo...
Sister My Sister
Released on: 1994-12-15
Drama, Thriller
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close siblin...
New Orleans Uncensored
Released on: 1955-03-01
Thriller, Crime, Drama
Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unawa...
Hell Drivers
Released on: 1957-07-23
Thriller, Drama, Crime
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Experiment in Terror
Released on: 1962-04-12
Thriller, Crime
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her i...
Victim
Released on: 1961-08-01
Drama, Crime, Thriller
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...
Sergeant Rutledge
Released on: 1960-05-25
Western, Crime, Drama
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white w...
Roadgames
Released on: 1981-02-27
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young f...
The Dark Past
Released on: 1948-12-22
Crime, Thriller, Drama
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recu...
Odd Man Out
Released on: 1947-01-30
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Panic
Released on: 1947-01-15
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns ...
Railroaded!
Released on: 1947-09-25
Thriller, Drama, Crime
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room,...
Angels Over Broadway
Released on: 1940-10-02
Drama, Crime
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...
Whispering Footsteps
Released on: 1943-12-30
Crime, Drama
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Tiger Bay
Released on: 1959-03-01
Thriller, Crime
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal k...
Beware, My Lovely
Released on: 1952-08-29
Drama, Crime, Thriller
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
No Highway in the Sky
Released on: 1951-06-28
Drama, Thriller
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...
Postmortem
Released on: 1998-06-20
Thriller
The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a p...
Kandahar Break
Released on: 2009-08-01
Action, Romance, Thriller, War
In 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must fl...
Amer
Released on: 2009-09-23
Thriller, Horror
Ana is confronted with body and desire at three key moments of her life. As a young girl, she brings...